 ... solutions to those come to by our friend. We are not pledging ourselves for the correctness of his opinions, which readers will please to consider are delivered dramatically, the writer being no more answerable for them, than for the sentiments uttered...  The history of Pendennis - Seite 171von William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1850 - 392 Seiten
...see allusions to questions which, no doubt, have occupied and discomposed himself, and which he has answered by very different solutions to those come...logic at present has brought him, is one of general skepticism and sneering acquiescence in the world as it is ; or if you like so to call it, a belief... | |
 | 1851 - 658 Seiten
...We are not pledging ourselves for the corruptness of hie (Pen's) opinions, which readers will pieuse to consider are delivered dramatically, the writer...progress the development of the mind of a worldly and selnsh, but not ungenerous or unkind, or truth-avoiding man. And it will be seen that the lamentable... | |
 | 1851 - 616 Seiten
...answerable for them, than for the sentiments uttered by any other character of the story. Our endeavour is merely to follow out in its progress the development...seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic has at present brought him, ia one of general scepticism, and sneering acquiescence in the world as... | |
 | 1852 - 532 Seiten
...omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis ;" and those views, to quote the words of the volume, are views " of a worldly and selfish, but not ungenerous or unkind, or truth-avoiding man." Listen to the rebuke administered : — "And to what does this easy and sceptical life lead a man?... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 520 Seiten
...answerable for them, than for the sentiments uttered by any other character of the story : our endeavour is merely to follow out, in its progress, the development...one of general scepticism and sneering acquiescence iu the world as it is ; or if you like so to call it, a belief qualified with scorn in all things extant.... | |
 | 1864 - 560 Seiten
...spirit of the age. This he has depicted in the gentlest and saddest of all his books, Pendenuis: — "And it will be seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic at present has brought him" (Arthur Pendeunis), "is one of general scepticism and sneering acquiescence in the world as it is ;... | |
 | 1864 - 650 Seiten
...he has depicted in the gentlest and saddest of all hie books, " Pendennis : " — " And it will bo seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic at present has brought him " (Arthur Pendennis) " ie one of general scepticism and sneering acquiescence in the world as it is... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 454 Seiten
...spirit of the age. This he has depicted in the gentlest and saddest of all his books, Pendennis : — " And it will be seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic at present has brought him" (Arthur Pendennis) "is one of general scepticism and sneering acquiescence in the world as it is ;... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 466 Seiten
...spirit of the age. This he has depicted in the gentlest and saddest of all his books, Pendennis: — " And it will be seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic at present has brought him" (Arthur Pendennis) "is one of general scepticism and sneering acquiescence in the world as it is; or... | |
 | John Brown - 1866 - 448 Seiten
...spirit of the age. This he has depicted in the gentlest and saddest of all his books, Pendennis : — " And it will be seen that the lamentable stage to which his logic at present has brought him" (Arthur Pendennis) "is one of general scepticism and sneering acquiescence in the world as it is ;... | |
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