 | 1824 - 494 sider
...construed would often appear insane or absurd. The truth is, his long intercourse with foreign nations bad given something of a hybrid tincture to his diction...of his works for instance he uses the French word /,t,lux! uniformly for the English alas! and apparently with no consciousness of his mistake. He had... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1855 - 318 sider
...because he was a philosopher ; secondly, because his acquaintance with man civilized and uncivilized, under all national distinctions, was absolutely unrivalled....singularity about him — that he was everlastingly metaphysicizing against metaphysics. To me, who was buried in metaphysical reveries from my earliest... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1863 - 372 sider
...absurd. The truth is, his long intercourse with foreign nations had given something of a hybrid tinctv.re to his diction; in some of his works, for instance, he uses the French word helast uniformly for the English alas! and apparently with no consciousness of his mistake. He had... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1864 - 316 sider
...because he was a philosopher ; secondly, because his acquaintance with man civilized and uncivilized, under all national distinctions, was absolutely unrivalled....works, for instance, he uses the French word helas t uniformly for the English alas ! and apparently with no consciousness of his mistake. He had also... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1873 - 596 sider
...uncivilized, under all national distinctions, was absolutely unrivalled. Meantime, this and othera of his opinions were expressed in language that if...He had also this singularity about him — that he waa everlastingly metaphysicizing against metaphysics. To me, who was buried in metaphysical reveries... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 sider
...oftei appear insane or absurd. The truth is, his loi-,; intercourse with foreign nations had givai Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As fall, as perfect, in a hair as hilas ! uniformly for the English alas ! and apparently with no consciousness of his mistake. He had... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1915 - 518 sider
...because he was a philosopher; secondly, because his acquaintance with man civilized and uncivilized, under all national distinctions, was absolutely unrivalled....singularity about him — that he was everlastingly metaphysicizing against metaphysics. To me, who was buried in metaphysical reveries from my earliest... | |
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English character will be found to terminate : and his opinion is especially valuable — first and chiefly, because he was a philosopher ; secondly, because his acquaintance with man civilized and uncivilized, under all national distinctions, was absolutely... 