 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...than for doing little ; for raising in the publick expectations, which at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It is hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...•have naturally gone far beyond him. He says ( Works, Vol. V., p. 152): "I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own : yet I have endeavoured to perform my task with no slight solicitude. Not a single passage in the whole work has appeared to me corrupt which... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible to be done. I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform my task with no slight solicitude. Not a single passage in the whole work has appeared to me corrupt,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...than for doing little ; for raising in the publick expectations, which at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It is hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...than for doing little ; for raising in the publick expectations, which at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It ia hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think... | |
 | 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 498
...than for doing little ; for raising in the publick expectations, which at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It is hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 585
...wrong than for doing little; for raising in the publick expectations which at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It is hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 660
...than for doing little ; for raising in the publie, expectations which at last I have not answered. The expectation of ignorance is indefinite, and that of knowledge is often tyrannical. It is hard to satisfy those who know not what to demand, or those who demand by design what they think impossible... | |
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I have indeed disappointed no opinion more than my own ; yet I have endeavoured to perform: my task with no slight solicitude. 
