 Voltaire is well known. But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed that he has blackened no man's character, nay, that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find in all the volumes which he has left us a single taunt which can be called ungenerous...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Página 112por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1843 - 586 páginas
...power without abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable than the power of making men ridiculous ; and that power Addison possessed in boundless measure. How grossly that power was abused by Swift and by Voltaire is well known. But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed that he has blackened no man's... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 614 páginas
...power without abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable than the power of making men ridicdous ; and that power Addison possessed in boundless measure. How grossly that power was abused by Swift and by Voltaire is well known. But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed that he has blackened no man's... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 páginas
...is more formidable than the power of making men ridiculous ; and that power Addison possessed in a boundless measure. How grossly that power was abused...Voltaire, is well known. But of Addison it may be cbnfidently affirmed that he has blackened no man's character, nay, that it would be difficult, if... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 páginas
...power without abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable than the power of making men ridiculous ; and that power Addison possessed in boundless measure....and Voltaire is well known. But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed \ that he has blackened no man's character, nay, that it would be difficult, if... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1853 - 600 páginas
...power without abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable than the power of making men ridiculous ; and that power Addison possessed in boundless measure....and Voltaire is well known. But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed that he has blackened no man's character, nay, that it would be difficult, if... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 584 páginas
...without abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable than the power of making men ridiculous ; arid that power Addison possessed in boundless measure....and Voltaire is well known. But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed that he has blackened np man's character, nay, that it would be difficult, if... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 páginas
...power without Abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable than the power of making men ridiculous ; and that power Addison possessed in boundless measure. How grossly that power was abused by Swift and by Voltaire is well ttiown. But of Addison it mav be confidently affirmed that he has blackened no... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 730 páginas
...power without abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable than the power of making men ridiculous ; and that power Addison possessed in boundless measure. How grossly that power was abused by Swift and by Voltaire is well known. But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed that he has blackened no man's... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 586 páginas
...power without abusing it. No kind of power is more formidable than the power of making men ridiculous ; and that power Addison possessed in boundless measure....and Voltaire is well known. But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed that he has blackened no man's character, nay, that it would be difficult, if... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1872 - 192 páginas
...kind of power (Macaulay, Essays, 2. 342) is more formidable than the power of making men ridiculous ; and that power Addison possessed in boundless measure. How grossly that power was abused by Swift and by Voltaire is well known. But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed that he has blackened no man's... | |
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