 | 1781 - 800 pages
...Critique on roltaire. Pram Shtrlock's Letters on 'various SubjeSs. " T Am Voltaire's friend and enemy. 1 He is a very voluminous, and a very unequal author....great deal of good, and a great deal of bad in him. throughout the world, as fir as he propagated immorality ? " His tragedies, you will fay, are moral... | |
 | Several Hands - 1782 - 586 pages
...thefe performances every other merit they pleafe, but as to genius, it is out of the queftion. — 1 am Voltaire's friend and enemy. He is a very voluminous...ftyle is charming ; always rapid, eafy, brilliant. D;£r.ion in writing is like colouring in a pi¿ture ; it is the firft thing that ftrikes, and with... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1782 - 588 pages
...thefe performances every other merit they pleafe, but as to genius, it is out of the queftion. — 1 am Voltaire's friend and enemy. He is a very voluminous...fpirit of humanity, and a love of tolerance, which inuft endear him to every reader. His ftyle is charming ; always rapid, ealy, brilliant. Diction in... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1839 - 318 pages
...interest-bearing paper of that country, termed oA/inatiom. [ De ta Circulation, etdu Credit, p. 81.) There is a great deal of good and a great deal of evil (he says) in the effects of this law : but the good appears to consist in the mode of emploging... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1839 - 314 pages
...interest-bearing paper of that country, termed obligations. [De la Circulation, et du Credit, p. 81.] There is a great deal of good and a great deal of evil (he says) in the effects of this law: but the good appears to consist in the mode of employing... | |
 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Europe - 1912 - 478 pages
...Quentin Durward, The Fair Maid of Perth, and Kenilzvorth, as Scott's best novels ; he said there was " a great deal of good " and " a great deal of bad " in his novels ; said he admired 1838] LORD FRANCIS EGERTON 261 his poems very much, though most people... | |
 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Europe - 1912 - 538 pages
...Quentin Durward, The Fair Maid of Perth, and Kenilworth, as Scott's best novels ; he said there was " a great deal of good " and " a great deal of bad " in his novels ; said he admired his poems very much, though most people said his novels were greatly superior... | |
 | Victoria (Queen of Great Britain) - Europe - 1914 - 450 pages
...Quentin Durward, The Fair Maid of Perth, and Kenilworth, as Scott's best novels ; he said there was " a great deal of good " and " a great deal of bad " in his novels ; said he admired his poems very much, though most people said his novels were greatly superior... | |
 | John Erskine - Literary Criticism - 1928 - 328 pages
...false, and if we are not entirely foolish, we will choose only the true and the good. But now we find there is a great deal of good, and a great deal of true, and we can not have it all. In other words, of many admirable professions we can follow, probably,... | |
 | The Lady's Magazine VOL.XII for the year 1781 - 1781 - 874 pages
...en VOLTAIRE. From SHERLOCK'S LETTERS en VARIOUS SUBJZCTS. •« T Am Voltaire's friend and enemy. L He is a very voluminous, and a very unequal author....good, and a great deal of bad in him. His writings fomctimes breathe a fpirit of humanity and a love of ifleranf, which muft endear him to every reader.... | |
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There is a great deal of good, and a great deal of bad in him. His writings fometimes breathe a fpirit of humanity, and a love of tolerance, which muft endear him to every reader. 