 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 512 pages
...Professor of Modern History in the University of Oiford. 3 vols. 4to. London : 1828, 1832. VOL. II. 11 to demand from us so large a portion of so short an existence. Compared with the labor of reading through these volumes, all other labors, — the labor of thieves on the treadmill,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 pages
...the life of man is now threescore years and ten; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Doctor Nares to demand from us so large a portion of so short...labour of reading through these volumes, all other labours—the labour of thieves on the tread* Memoirs of the Life and Administration of the Right Honourable... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Doctor Nares to demand from us so large a portion of so short an existence. • Prime minister of Quetn Elirabctli. Compared with the labor of reading through these volumes, all... | |
 | 1902 - 664 pages
...reading by Hilpa and Shalura. But unhappily the life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Dr. Nares to...from us so large a portion of so short an existence." This is curiously like a passage in a letter of Hannah More to the Rev. Daniel Wilson (1822) :— "... | |
 | David Thomas - 448 pages
...which publishers lay upon their table, hard indeed would be their lot. "Compared with that labour, all other labour — the labour of thieves on the...children in factories, of negroes in sugar plantations, would be an agreeable recreation. There was, it is said, a criminal in Italy, who was suffered to make... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Doctor Nares to demand from us so large a portion of so short ал existence. Compared with the labour of reading through these volumes, all other labour — the... | |
 | 1853 - 848 pages
...reading by Hilpa and Shallum. But unhappily the life of man is now threescore years and ten ; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Dr. Nares to...portion of so short an existence. " Compared with the labor of reading through these volumes, all other labor, the labor of thieves on the tread-mill, of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 430 pages
...short an existence. Compared with the labour of reading through these volumes, all other labour—the labour of thieves on the tread-mill, of children in factories, of negroes in sugar plan* Memoirs of the Life and Administration of the Right Honourable William Cecil Lord Burghley, Secretary... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 pages
...the life of man is now threescore years and ten; and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Doctor Nares to demand from us so large a portion of so short...labour of reading through these volumes, all other labour—the labour of thieves on the tread-mill, of children in factories, of negroes in sugar plantations—is... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 pages
...reading by Hilpa and Shalum. But, unhappily, the life of man is now three score years and ten : and we cannot but think it somewhat unfair in Dr. Nares to...from us so large a portion of so short an existence." ENGLISH CLASSICAL EDUCATION.* THERE are two questions which grow out of this subject: 1st, How far... | |
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... occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic measure, and that it weighs sixty pounds avoirdupois. Such a book might, before the deluge, have been considered as light reading by Hilpa and Shalum. 
