 | Henry Fielding - 1840 - 416 páginas
...more distinct from each other: /for Greatness consists in bringing all B 2 J. I MISREPRESENTATIONS. manner of mischief on mankind, and Goodness in removing it from them. 1* seems therefore very unlikely that the same^pcfson should possess them both ; and yet nothing is... | |
 | 1855 - 846 páginas
...profiting by the caution contained in Fielding's fife of that other hero Jonathan Wild the Great, "that as greatness consists in bringing all manner of mischief...mankind, and goodness in removing it from them, it seems very unlikely that the same persons should possess them both ; yet nothing is more usual with writers... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1857 - 506 páginas
...more distinct from each other: for greatness_consists in bringing all manner of mischief on mankm"3, and goodness in removing it from them. It seems therefore very unlikely that tfie same person should possess them both ; and yet nothing is more usual with writers, who find many... | |
 | 1872 - 774 páginas
...think its rival will scarcely be found in the language. Having stated the thesis of his argument, that "greatness consists in bringing all manner of mischief...on mankind, and goodness in removing it from them," in contradistinction to what he amusingly terms the " obsolete doctrines of a set of simple fellows... | |
 | 1877 - 626 páginas
...days, that we can distinguish them from the backwoodsman and rowdy of the American continent.' * ' Greatness consists in bringing all manner of mischief...mankind, and goodness in removing it from them.'— FIELDING. 136 137 Yet such is the ingratitude of mankind, so reluctant and tardy the appreciation of... | |
 | 1877 - 630 páginas
...greatness, managed to place Jonathan Wild,* he insists on making them the objects of a hero worship * ' Greatness consists in bringing all manner of mischief...on mankind, and goodness in removing it from them.' — FIELDING. -which throws Mr. Carlyle's into the shade. In another sphere, and with a moral sense... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1899 - 264 páginas
...of greatness and goodness; whereas no two things can possibly be more distinct from each other : for greatness consists in bringing all manner of mischief...on mankind, and goodness in removing it from them." Jonathan Wild, — FIELDING. P. 42, 11. 23, 24. battle of Worcester. Fought between the Roundheads... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1902 - 390 páginas
...of greatness and goodness ; whereas no two things can possibly be more distinct from each other, for greatness consists in bringing all manner of mischief...writers, who find many instances of greatness in their favorite hero, than to make him a compliment of g-oodness into the bargain ; and this, without considering... | |
 | Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley - 1902 - 398 páginas
...of greatness and goodness ; whereas no two things can possibly be more distinct from each other, for greatness consists in bringing all manner of mischief...writers, who find many instances of greatness in their favorite hero, than to make him a compliment of goodness into the bargain ; and this, without considering... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1902 - 390 páginas
...greatness and goodness ; whereas _ no two things can possibly be more distinct from each other, for greatness consists in bringing all manner -of mischief on mankind, and goodness in removing it from thenD It seems therefore very unlikely that the same person should possess them both ; and yet nothing... | |
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... no two things can possibly be more distinct from each other: for Greatness consists in bringing all manner of mischief on mankind, and Goodness in removing it from them. 
