| 1881 - 314 páginas
...the Third." Here is a reflection in another strain, the strain of the great Sidonia : " Man is only great when he acts from the passions ; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. Even Mormon counts more votaries than Bentham." Here, in a nutshell, is the author's own story : "... | |
| Georg Brandes - 1880 - 392 páginas
...inspired the Crusades, that instituted the monastic orders ; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits ; above all, it was not reason that created the French...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. Even Mormon counts more votaries than Bentham." * What is here expressed as the opinion of Disraeli's... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 498 páginas
...the Crusades ; that instituted the Monastic orders ; it was not Reason that produced the Jesuits ; above all, it was not Reason that created the French...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. Even Mormon counts more votaries than Bentham.' ' And you think, then, that as Imagination once subdued... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1881 - 590 páginas
...the Crusades ; that instituted tho Monastic orders ; it was not Reason that produced the Jesuits ; above all, it was not Reason that created the French...acts from, the passions ; never irresistible but when ho appeals to the imagination. Even Mormon counts more votaries than Bentham.' ' And you think, then,... | |
| 1881 - 408 páginas
...Assassination has never changed the history of the world." — Spfech on Death of President Lincoln. 16. " Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination." 17. " Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books arc the refutation of that nonsense."... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 408 páginas
...thought the opinions of some third person, who has adopted them without inquiry. — Tancred. Man is only great when he acts from the passions ; never irresistible, but when he appeals to the imagination. Even Mormon counts more votaries than Bentham. — (' Sidonia ') Coningsby. Man is made to adore and... | |
| James Anthony Froude - 1890 - 290 páginas
...from the desert to conquer the world, that inspired the Crusader, that instituted the monastic orders. It was not reason that created the French revolution....irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. Even Mormon counts more votaries than Bentham. The tendency of advanced civilisation is, in truth,... | |
| Edmund Gosse - 1891 - 360 páginas
...the story was doubtless only echoing what Smythe had laid down as a dogma when he said : " Man is 297 only truly great when he acts from the passions, never...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination." It was the theory of Young England that the historic memory must be awakened in the lower classes ;... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 612 páginas
...was not reason,' said Disraeli, ' that besieged Troy : it was not reason which sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world, that inspired...it contains a truth ; and the truth is that reason may supply the body of a movement, but if it is to soar, imagination must lend it wings ; and if it... | |
| 1901 - 282 páginas
...failed ; its failure in an ancient and densely peopled kingdom was inevitable. . . . Man is only really truly great when he acts from the passions, never...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.' . . . 'And you think that, as imagination once subdued the State, imagination may now save it ?'—'Man... | |
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