| David Leslie Murray - 1927 - 324 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."1 Pardy from Sidonia's suggestions, pardy from his own... | |
| Ulrich Christoph Janiesch - 1975 - 316 páginas
...man for any of the great achievements which are the landmarks of human action and human progress. ... Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions;...irresistible but when he appeals to the Imagination. ' ... 'Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to... | |
| Alan W. Bellringer, C. B. Jones - 1988 - 264 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." "And you think then that as Imagination once subdued... | |
| Jonathan Riley-Smith - 2001 - 478 páginas
...that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world: that inspired the crusades . . . Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions,...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.' The American author Mark Twain visited the battlefield of Hattin during his tour of the Holy Land (The... | |
| Paul Smith - 1996 - 266 páginas
...utilitarian basis had failed. It was not reason that had produced the great achievements of mankind. 'Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions;...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination ... Man is made to adore and to obey.'28 In the notion that successful political appeal was largely... | |
| Patrick Brantlinger - 1996 - 308 páginas
...more than on intrigue, money, or any other merely worldly determinant. As Sidonia tells Coningsby, "'Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions,...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. Even Mormon counts more votaries than Bentham'" (Coningsby 253). In her last novel, George Eliot invokes... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 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 Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. BENJAMIN... | |
| Charles Richmond, Paul Smith - 1998 - 232 páginas
...multitudes as well as compelling the reason of readers. 'Man', as Sidonia has it in Coningsby (IV, xiii) 'is only truly great when he acts from the passions,...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.' Yet, though (evidently on his very best behaviour) he impressed with his 'friendliness and lack of... | |
| Count Cherep-Spriridovich - 2000 - 220 páginas
...reason of man for any of great achievements which are the landmarks of human action and human progress; Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions;...irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. England is governed by Downing Street, once it was governed by the Kings". Rothschild is sure that... | |
| Rudra Sil, Eileen M. Doherty - 2000 - 282 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 Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination. —Benjamin... | |
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