 ... 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
 | James Paterson - 1877 - 530 pages
...maintained their status as administrators of pauper relief, though tied down by no definite rules, and amid the huts of a miserable peasantry and the castles of a ferocious aristocracy, they served in their religious retreats to mitigate the inequalities of fortune, and prevented society... | |
 | Clemens Klöpper - 1881 - 508 pages
...now extinct, had piled up buildings which would never be dissolved till the judgment day (Macaulay). Had not such retreats been scattered here and there, among the huts of a miserable peasantry . . ., European society would have consisted merely of beasts of burden and beasts of prey (id.). The... | |
 | Morris Joseph Fuller - 1890 - 402 pages
...could employ himself in transcribing the JEneid of Virgil, and another in meditating on the Analytics of Aristotle, in which he who had a genius for art might illuminate a martyrolopy or carve a crucifix, and in which he who had a turn for natural philosophy might make experiments... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Aberdeen - 1892 - 512 pages
...could employ himself in transcribing the ./,'.-;--/ of Virgil, and another in meditating the Analytics of Aristotle; in which he who had a genius for art...experiments on the properties of plants and minerals." We do well, I think, to keep these wise words of our brilliant essayist in mind. Although more than... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 184 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...illuminate a martyrology or carve a crucifix, and in 30 which he who had a turn for natural philosophy might make experiments on the properties of plants... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 598 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...ferocious aristocracy, European society would have con- 6 sisted merely of beasts of burden and beasts of prey. The Church has many times been compared... | |
 | G.A. Natesan - 1925 - 1088 pages
...commission of a crime, could fly and claim protection. "Had not such retreats," says Lord Macaulay, " been scattered here and there, among the huts of a...miserable peasantry, and the castles of a ferocious autocracy, European society would have consisted merely of beasts of burden and beasts of prey." No... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1849 - 564 pages
...could employ himself in transcribing the YEneid 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 nuts of a miserable peasantry, and the castles of a ferocious aristocracy, European society would have... | |
 | Mary Sands Griffin - 1866 - 464 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,...minerals. Had not such retreats been scattered here and thereamong the huts of the miserablepeasantry, and the castles of the ferocious aristocracy, European... | |
 | 168 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...might illuminate a martyrology or carve a crucifix, arid in which he who had a turn for natural philosophy might make experiments on the properties of... | |
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