 An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities. The wise man of the Stoics would, no doubt, be a grander object than a steam-engine. But there are...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Pagina 3431837Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1838 - 870 pagina’s
...il. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is belter than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities....than a steam-engine. But there are steam-engines; and ihe wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born. A philosophy which should enable a man to feel perfecily... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pagina’s
...it. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities....no doubt, be a grander object than a steam-engine. Bui liiere are steam-engines ; and the wise man of the Stoics is yel lo be born, A philosophy which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 pagina’s
...it. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities....feel perfectly happy while in agonies of pain, may be better than a philosophy which assuages pain. But we know that there are remedies which will assuage... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pagina’s
...'• An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities....And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born." " The noble poem on the Massacres of Piedmont is strictly a collect in verse." " It is by giving faith... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 pagina’s
...it. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities....steam-engines. And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be bora. A philosophy which should enable a man to feel perfectly happy while in agonies of pain, may... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 pagina’s
...it. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities....man to feel perfectly happy while in agonies of pain would be better than a philosophy which assuages pain. But we know that there are remedies which will... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 pagina’s
...it. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities....steam-engines. And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to he born. A philosophy which should enable a man to feel perfectly happy while in agonies of pain, may... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pagina’s
..." An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities....And the wise man of the Stoics is yet to be born." And a thousand readers huzzaed and tossed up their caps for the steam-engine, and held Plato and Marcus... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pagina’s
...it. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better arated from natural philosophy, of which it was one...astronomy which should sett forth the nature, the better than a philosophy which assuages pain. But we know that there are remedies which will assuage... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 338 pagina’s
...it. An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. The smallest actual good is better than the most magnificent promises of impossibilities....man to feel perfectly happy while in agonies of pain would be better than a philosophy which assuages pain. But we know that there are remedies which will... | |
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