French (and, we believe, several other modern languages) fluently : is a capital mathematician, and obtained an introduction to the celebrated Carnot in this latter character, when the conversation turned on squaring the circle, and not on the propriety... The Philomathic journal - Page 200by Philomathic institution - 1826Full view - About this book
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1825 - 438 pages
...hour ; but they soon bloomed again ! Mr. Broughajn writes almost, if not quite, as well as he speaks. In the midst of an Election contest he comes out to...life, let it slide by them without wishing to seize and make the most of its golden minutes. The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English essays - 1825 - 440 pages
...hour; but they soon bloomed again! Mr. Brougham writes almost, if not quite, as well as he speaks. In the midst of an Election contest he comes out to...life, let it slide by them without wishing to seize and make the most of its golden minutes. The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are,... | |
| William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1825 - 420 pages
...comes out to address the populace, and goes back to his study to finish an article for the Eclinburgh Review ; sometimes indeed wedging three or four articles...life, let it slide by them without wishing to seize and make the most of its golden minutes. The more we do, the more we can do ; the more busy we are,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1825 - 482 pages
...any thing, but he cannot be idle. There are few intellectual accomplishTHE SPIRIT OF THE AGE. meats which he does not possess, and possess in a very high...life, let it slide by them without wishing to seize and make the most of its golden minutes. The more we do, the more we can do ; the more busy we are,... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1825 - 426 pages
...time. There is room enough to crowd almost every art and science into it. If we pass " no day without u line," visit no place without the company of a book,...life, let it slide by them without wishing to seize and make the most of its golden minutes. The more we do, the more we can do ; the more busy we are,... | |
| 1831 - 472 pages
...the Edinburgh Review, sometimes indeed wedging three or four articles (in the shape of refaceimentos of his own pamphlets or speeches in parliament) into...life, let it slide by them without wishing to seize and make the most of its golden minutes. The more we do, the more we ca/i do ; the more busy we are,... | |
| 1831 - 476 pages
...turned on squaring the circle, and not on the propriety of confining France within the natural houndary of the Rhine. Mr. Brougham is, in fact, a striking...without a line,' visit no place without the company of a hook, we may with ease fill libraries or empty them of their contents. Those who complain of the shortness... | |
| 1832 - 614 pages
...Mr. Brougham is, in fact, a striking instance of the versatility and strength of the human mind, nnd also in one sense of the length of human life, if...no place without the company of a book, we may with case fill libraries or empty them of their contents. Those who complain of the shortness of life, let... | |
| John Hessel - 1841 - 384 pages
...forcible remark of Hazlitt in his character of Lord Brougham : " There is room enough in human life to crowd almost every art and science into it. If...no place without the company of a book, we may with case fill libraries, or empty them of their contents. The more we do the more we can do ; the more... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1846 - 288 pages
...natural boundary of the Rhine. Mr. Brougham is, in fact, a striking instance of the versatility and j strength of the human mind, and also in one sense...life, let it slide by them without wishing to seize and make the most of its golden minutes. The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are,... | |
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