 | 1849 - Počet stránok 700
...to rejoice when a class, of which the influence is intellectual and moral, rises to ascendancy. Such a class will doubtless abuse its power: but mental...consists merely in corporeal strength. We read in our Saxon chronicles of tyrants, who, when at the hcight of greatness, were smitten with remorse, who... | |
 | 1849 - Počet stránok 468
...to rejoice when a class of which the influence is intellectual and moral rises to ascen. dancy. Such a class will doubtless abuse its power ; but mental...that which consists merely in corporeal strength. * * * Sorely a gystrni which, 89 however deformed by superstition, introduced strong moral restraints... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - Počet stránok 884
...to rejoice when a class, of which the influence is intellectual and moral, rises to ascendency. Such a class will doubtless abuse its power: but mental power, even when abused, it still a nobler and better power than that which consist* merely fa corporeal strength. We read in... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - Počet stránok 714
...to rejoice when a class, of which the influence is intellectual and moral, rises to ascendency. Such a class will doubtless abuse its power: but mental...consists merely in corporeal strength. We read in our Saxon chronicles of tyrants, who, when at the height of greatness, were smitten with remorse, who... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - Počet stránok 552
...to rejoice when a class, of which the influence is intellectual and moral, rises to ascendency. Such a class will doubtless abuse its power: but mental...consists merely in corporeal strength. We read in our Saxon chronicles of tyrants, who, when at the height of greatness, were smitten with remorse, who... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - Počet stránok 546
...nobler and better power than that which consists merely in corporeal strength. We read in our Saxon chronicles of tyrants, who, when at the height of...pleasures and dignities which they had purchased by gui'ti who abdicated their crowns, and who sought to atone for their offences by cruel penances and... | |
 | Hermann Olshausen - 1853 - Počet stránok 692
...rejoice, when a class, of which the influence is intellectual and moral, rises to ascendency. Such a class will doubtless abuse its power ; but mental...when abused, is still a nobler and better power, than which consists merely in corporal strenght. — The same observations will apply to the contempt, with... | |
 | Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard - 1853 - Počet stránok 688
...rejoice, when a class, of which the influence is intellectual and moral, rises to ascendency. Such a class will doubtless abuse its power ; but mental...when abused, is still a nobler and better power, than which consists merely in corporal strenght. — The same observations will apply to the contempt, with... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1855 - Počet stránok 556
...intellectual and moral, rises to ascendency^ Such a class will doubtless abuse its power ; but menial power, even when abused, is still a nobler and better...pleasures and dignities which they had purchased by guilf who abdicated their crowns, and who sought to atone for UMU* 1* offences, by cruel penances and... | |
 | Charles William Jones - 1859 - Počet stránok 120
...a time of good government. It is better to be governed by mere priestcraft than by brute violence. We read in the Anglo-Saxon chronicles of tyrants who,...height of greatness, were smitten with remorse, who gave up their kingdoms, and who tried to atone for their offences by cruel penances and incessant prayers.... | |
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... priestcraft than by brute violence, by such a prelate as Dunstan than by such a warrior as Penda. A society sunk in ignorance, and ruled by mere physical force, has great reason to rejoice when a class, of which the influence is intellectual and moral,... 
