 | New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...Lord Macaulay forcibly remarks, " Society has its great men and its little men, as the earth has its mountains and its valleys. But the inequalities of...manifest to the multitude. This is the extent of their superiority. They are the first to catch and reflect a light which, without their assistance, must,... | |
 | 1833 - 564 pages
...illuminates the hills whilst it is still below the horizon, and truth is discovered by the highest minds only a little before it becomes manifest to the multitude. This is the extent of their superiority. They are the first to catch and reflect a light, which, without their assistance, must... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1834 - 518 pages
...Macaulay in his article on Dryden, in the Edinburgh Review : " The Sun illuminates the hills whilst it is still below the horizon, and truth is discovered by the highest minds only a little before it becomes manifest to the multitude. This is the extent of their superiority.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...the origin of human ideas. Society indeed has its great men and its little men, as the earth has its mountains and its valleys. But the inequalities of...manifest to the multitude. This is the extent of their superiority. They are the first to catch and reflect a light, which, without their assistance, must,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...human ideas. Society indeed has its great men and its little men, as (he earth has its mountains end of, but little read. They have produced indeed a...the opinions of mankind; but they have produced it superiority. They are the first to catch end reflect a light, which, without their assistance, must,... | |
 | 1850 - 396 pages
...the Edinburgh. Review : — " Society has its great men and its little men, as the earth has •ts mountains and its valleys. But the inequalities of...neglected. The sun illuminates the hills, while it je still below the horizon ; and truth is discovered by the highest mimls a little before it becomes... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...the origin of human ideas. Society indeed has its great men and its little men, as the earth has its mountains and its valleys. But the inequalities of...neglected. The sun illuminates the hills, while it is stilt below the horizon ; and truth is discovered by the highest minds a little before it becomes manifest... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...the origin of human ideas. Society indeed has its great men and its little men, as the earth has its mountains and its valleys. But the inequalities of...great revolutions, they may safely be neglected. The fan illuminates the hills, while it is still below the horizon; and truth is discovered by the highest... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 pages
...the origin of human ideas. Society indeed has its great men and its little men, as the earth has its mountains and its valleys. But the inequalities of...manifest to the multitude. This is the extent of their superiority. They are the first to catch and reflect a light, which, without their assistance, must,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 pages
...the origin of human ideas. Society indeed has its great men and its little men, as the earth has its mountains and its valleys. But the inequalities of intellect, like the inequalities of the surface af our globe, bear so small a proportion to the mass, that, in calculating its great revolutions, they... | |
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The sun illuminates the hills, while it is still below the horizon ; and truth is discovered by the highest minds a little before it becomes manifest to the multitude. This is the extent of their superiority. They are the first to catch and reflect a... 
