 Yitruvius of ruin. He has bequeathed to us not a single doctrine to be called by his name — not a single addition to the stock of our positive knowledge. But no human teacher ever left behind him so vast and terrible a wreck of truths and falsehoods...  The Edinburgh Review - Страница 2541842Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 842 страници
...its great forerunner : Voltaire could not build : he could only pull down : he was the very Vitruvius of ruin. He has bequeathed to us not a single doctrine...things base, of things useful and things pernicious. Prom the time when his sojourn beneath the Alps commenced, the dramatist, the wit, the historian, was... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 272 страници
...: Voltaire could not build : he could only pull down : he was the very Vitruvius of ruin. He has 15 bequeathed to us not a single doctrine to be called...falsehoods, of things noble and things base, of things 20 useful and things pernicious. From the time when his sojourn beneath the Alps commenced, the dramatist,... | |
 | Henry Lewis - 1913 - 450 страници
...its great forerunner : Voltaire could not build : he could only pull down. He was the very Vitruvius of ruin. He has bequeathed to us not a single doctrine...positive knowledge. But no human teacher ever left after him so vast and terrible wreck of truths and falsehoods, of things noble and things base, of... | |
 | 1865 - 506 страници
...ihm nachgesetzt, wie in der schönen Stelle von Macaulays Biograph, essays S. 53 : a wreck of truth and falsehoods, of things noble and things base, of things useful and things pernicious. Unter § 618, wo gelehrt wird, dass it auf den noch folgenden Theil eines Satzes hinweise, wenn es... | |
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