 | Henry Barnard - 1857 - 880 sider
...race, and thank you for it. You will please men, to whom you speak the truth, but not make them better. No one could paint in stronger colors the horrors of human society, from which our ignorance anrl weakness promise themselves KO many delights. Never has any one employed so much genius to make... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1859 - 480 sider
...race, and thank you for it. You will please men. to whom you speak the truth, but not make them better. No one could paint in stronger colors the horrors of human society, from which our ignorance anil weakness promise themselves so many delights. Never has any one employed so much genius to make... | |
 | 1871 - 970 sider
...your new hook against the human race, and thank you for it. No one could paint in stronger colours the horrors of human society, from which our ignorance...themselves so many delights. Never has any one employed go much genius to make us into beasts ; when one reads your book, he is seized at once with a desire... | |
 | James Parton - 1881 - 688 sider
...please men. to whom you tell truths which concern them, but vou will not correct them. One could not paint in stronger colors the horrors of human society, from which our ignorance and our weakness expect so many consolations. No one has ever employed so much intellect in the attempt... | |
 | Edward Jackson Lowell - 1892 - 430 sider
...please the men to whom you tell disagreeable truths, but you will not correct them. It is impossible to paint in stronger colors the horrors of human society,...ignorance and weakness promise themselves so many consolations. No one ever spent so much wit in trying to make us stupid; when we read your book we... | |
 | Voltaire, Tobias Smollett - 1901 - 404 sider
...please men, to whom you tell truths which concern them, but you will not correct them. One could not paint in stronger colors the horrors of human society, from which our ignorance and our weakness expect so many consolations. No one has ever employed so much intellect in the attempt... | |
 | Albert Stanburrough Cook, Allen Rogers Benham - 1905 - 176 sider
...truth about themselves, but you will not reform them. It would be impossible to paint in more striking colors the horrors of human society, from which our ignorance and weakness are wont to promise themselves so many consolations. No one has ever employed so much cleverness in... | |
 | William Torrey Harris - 1915 - 228 sider
...fallacy in the following sarcastic style : " I have received your new hook against the human race, and thank you for it. No one could paint in stronger colors...has any one employed so much genius to make us into heasts ; when one reads your hook, he is seized at once with a desire to go down on all fours." PESTALOZZI.... | |
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I HAVE received, monsieur, your new book against the human race; I thank you for it. 
