I find that the long experience I have had of the baseness, the malice, and the falsehood of mankind, has inclined me to be apt to think generally the worst both of men and of parties... The Fourteenth Century - Página 225por Frederick John Snell - 1899 - 428 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Gilbert Burnet - 1833 - 676 páginas
...be more lasting and more generally known than the other. I find that the long experience I have had of the baseness, the malice, and the falsehood of...inclined me to be apt to think generally the worst both of men and of parties : and indeed the peevishness, the ill nature, and the ambition of many clergymen,... | |
| 1836 - 744 páginas
...other respects, worthy of public confidence. " I find," says he, " that the long experience I have had of the baseness, the malice, and the falsehood of...inclined me to be apt to think generally the worst both of men and parties r and, indeed, the peevishness, the ill-nature, and the ambition of many clergymen,... | |
| Edward Mammatt - 1836 - 368 páginas
...other respects, worthy of public confidence. " I find," says he, " that the long experience I have had of the baseness, the malice, and the falsehood of...inclined me to be apt to think generally the worst both of men and parties : and, indeed, the peevishness, the ill-nature, and the ambition of many clergymen,... | |
| 1865 - 588 páginas
...Preface : ' I find thaf the IODJ experience I have had of the baseness, the malice, and the falsehood o mankind, has inclined me to be apt to think generally the worst both o men and parties ; and indeed the peevishness, the ill-nature, and the ambi tion of many clergymen... | |
| John Dryden - 1885 - 476 páginas
...disposition to look upon the dark side of humanity. " I find," says he, " that the long experience I have had of the baseness, the malice, and the falsehood of...think generally the worst of men, and of parties." Burnet therefore candidly puts the reader upon his guard against this predominant foible, and expressly... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 482 páginas
...disposition to look upon the dark side of humanity. " I find," says he, " that the long experience I have had of the baseness, the malice, and the falsehood of...think generally the worst of men, and of parties." Burnet therefore candidly puts the reader upon his guard against this predominant foible, and expressly... | |
| 1896 - 1162 páginas
...be more lasting and more generally known than the other. I find that the long experience I have had of the baseness, the malice, and the falsehood of...inclined me to be apt to think generally the worst both of men and of parties : and indeed the peevishness, the ill-nature, and the ambition of many hot... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - 1897 - 666 páginas
...be more lasting and more generally known than the other. I find that the long experience I have had of the baseness, the malice, and the falsehood of...inclined me to be apt to think generally the worst both of men and of parties : and indeed the peevishness, b the ill nature, and the ambition of many... | |
| 1899 - 486 páginas
...qu'on aait par coour; cela suffit pour s'i5pargner la peine d'examiner le reste." — Dictionnairr the historian, " that the long experience of the baseness,...moralist. The incomparable episode of Francesca da Rimini shows how deeply he can be touched by human love and sorrow ; but it is not his prerogative... | |
| Mark Van Doren - 1920 - 382 páginas
...destined to fascinate many a gilded youth after the Restoration, and even to incline old Bishop Burnet "to be apt to think generally the worst of men and of parties." In the wake of Hobbes came Lucretius, the favorite of Gassendi and Moliere, ... to proclaim in English... | |
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