 | 1837 - 608 trang
...choice between the first shoemaker, and the author of the three books ' On Anger,' we pronounce for the shoemaker. It may be worse to be angry than to...being wet ; and we doubt whether Seneca ever kept any body from being angry. It is very reluctantly that Seneca can be brought to confess that any philosopher... | |
 | 1838 - 822 trang
...choice between the first shoemaker, and the author of the three books ' On Anger,' we pronounce for the shoemaker. It may be worse to be angry than to...being wet ; and we doubt whether Seneca ever kept any body from being angry. It is very reluctantly that Seneca can be brought to confess that any philosopher... | |
 | 1838 - 870 trang
...shoemaker, and the author of the three books ' On Anger,' we pronounce for the shoemaker. It maybe worse to be angry than to be wet. But shoes have kept...being wet ; and we doubt whether Seneca ever kept any body from being angry. It is very reluctantly that Seneca can be brought to confess that any philosopher... | |
 | 1847 - 662 trang
...choice between the first shoemaker, and the author of the three books ' On Anger,' we pronounce for the shoemaker. It may be worse to be angry than to be wet. But shoes have kept thousands from being wet ; and we doubt whether Seneca ever kept anybody from being angry." With all... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 410 trang
...choice between the first shoemaker, and the author of the three books " On Anger," we pronounce for the shoemaker. It may be worse to be angry than to...whether Seneca ever kept anybody from being angry. From the cant of this philosophy—a philosophy meanly proud of its own unprofitableness—it is delightful... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 520 trang
...Epist. QO. between the first shoemaker, and the author of the three books On Anger, we pronounce for the shoemaker. It may be worse to be angry than to...being wet ; and we doubt whether Seneca ever kept any body from being angry. It is very reluctantly that Seneca can be brought to confess that any philosopher... | |
 | 1849 - 606 trang
...choice between the first shoemaker and the author of the three books ' On Anger,' we pronounce for the shoemaker. It may be worse to be angry than to...whether Seneca ever kept anybody from being angry." This is humorously said ; but as an argument against ancient philosophy it is frivolous. He mistakes... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 trang
...oar choice between the first shoemaker and the author of the three books "On Anger," we pronounce for farmer and gardener. The grounds were laid out with...angular regularity which Sir William had admired in th donbt whether Seneca ever kept anybody from being angry. It is very reluctantly that Seneca can be... | |
 | 1849 - 588 trang
...choice between the first shoemaker and the author of the three books ' On Anger,' we pronounce for e remarks : "For our own part, if we are forced er оеш angry." This is humorously said ; but as an argument against ancient philosophy it is frivolous.... | |
 | 1897 - 1138 trang
...on a similar footing with the following sentence, which I borrow from Macanlav'e 'Essay on Bacon': "It is very reluctantly that Seneca can be brought...had ever paid the smallest attention to anything," &c. A great writer who approached every subject on which he touched, from the rules of composition... | |
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We shall next be told," exclaims Seneca, "that the first shoemaker was a philosopher." For our own part, if we are forced to make our choice between the first shoemaker and the author of the three books "On Anger," we pronounce for the shoemaker. 
