 ... of Virgil, and another in meditating the Analytics of Aristotle, in which he who had a genius for art might illuminate a martyrology or carve a crucifix, and in which he who had a turn for natural philosophy might make experiments on the properties...  Life and times of Charlemagne - Page 1071799 - 192 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 1052 pages
...brother could employ himself in trnnsmhing the ^£neid of Virgil, and another in mediating the Analytics of Aristotle, in which he who had a genius for art might illuminate a maror carve a crucifix, and in which he who had a tarn for natural philosophy might make «périment*... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1864 - 816 pages
...could employ himself in transcribing the .32neid of Virgil, and another in meditating the Analytics of Aristotle, in which he who had a genius for art might illuminate a mar • tyrology or carve a cru cifix, and in which he who had a turn for natural philosophy might... | |
 | 1849 - 636 pages
...brother could employ himself in transcribing the Eneid of Virgil, and another in meditating the Analytics of Aristotle ; in which he who had a genius for art...properties of plants and minerals. Had not such retreats b 'en scattered here and there among the huts of a miserable peasantry and the castles of a ferocious... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 668 pages
...could employ himself in transcribing the .iEneid of Virgil, and another in meditating the Analytics of Aristotle, in which he who had a genius for art...there, among the huts of a miserable peasantry, and CHAP. the castles of a ferocious aristocracy, European society would ^ ^ have consisted merely of beasts... | |
 | Mary Sands Griffin - 1865 - 468 pages
...could employ himself in transcribing the Eneid of Virgil and another in meditating on the Analytics of Aristotle; in which he who had a genius for art,...retreats been scattered here and there among the huts of the miserable peasantry, and the castles of the ferocious aristocracy, European society would have... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 582 pages
...could employ himself in transcribing the ./Eneid of Virgil, and another in meditating the Analytics of Aristotle, in which he who had a genius for art...retreats been scattered here and there, among the huu of a miserable peasantry, and tlie castles of a ferocious aristocracy, European society would have... | |
 | W. DOUGLASHAMILTON - 1872 - 482 pages
...all price as places of quiet and religious refuge for defenceless women and for contemplative men. " Had not such retreats been scattered here and there,...peasantry and the castles of a ferocious aristocracy, society would have consisted merely of beasts of burden and beasts of prey." 1153 Treaty of Winchester,... | |
 | William Douglas Hamilton (Historian.) - 1872 - 484 pages
...all price as places of quiet and religious refuge for defenceless women and for contemplative men. " Had not such retreats been scattered here and there,...peasantry and the castles of a ferocious aristocracy, society would have consisted merely of beasts of burden and beasts of prey." 1153 Treaty of Winchester,... | |
 | George Walter De Lisle - 1872 - 280 pages
...hastened to cross the bridge, and made his retreat unmolested to Oxford. 3. If such retreats had not been scattered here and there among the huts of a...of a ferocious aristocracy, European society would merely have consisted of beasts of burden and beasts of prey. 4. The old members were astonished at... | |
 | World - 1873 - 180 pages
...candidly and generously avows " it was given to our holy religion to find retreats for art and letters among the huts of a miserable peasantry and the castles of a ferocious aristocracy — she provided an asylum in which one brother could employ himself in translating the _<Eneid of... | |
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