 | 1835 - 932 pages
...Generalisation is necessary to the advancement of knowledge, but particularly in the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think...individuals, and more at classes. They therefore make belter theories and worse poems. They give us vague phrases instead of images, and personified qualities... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...Generalizatiqp is necessary to the advancement of knowledge, but particularly in the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more, and think...therefore make better theories, and worse poems. They give us vague phrases instead of images, and personified qualities instead of men. They may be better... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1841 - 530 pages
...stationary or retrogrades. " As civilization advances," says Macaulay, " poetry almost necessarily declines. In proportion as men know more and think more, they...therefore make better theories, and worse poems. They give us vague phrases instead of images, and personified qualities instead of men. They may be better... | |
 | Religion - 1841 - 532 pages
...stationary or retrogrades. " As civilization advances," says Macaulay, " poetry almost necessarily declines. In proportion as men know more and think more, they...therefore make better theories, and worse poems. They give us vague phrases instead of images, and personified qualities instead of men. They may be better... | |
 | Theology - 1841 - 524 pages
...stationary or retrogrades. " As civilization advances," says Macaulay, " poetry almost necessarily declines. In proportion as men know more and think more, they...therefore make better theories, and worse poems. They give us vague phrases instead of images, and personified qualities instead of men. They may be better... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...particuarly in the creations ol'the imagination. Inprojortion as men know more, and think more, they nok less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse >oeme. They give us vague phrases instead of mages, and personified qualities instead of men. They... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge, but particularly in the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more, and think...therefore make better theories and worse poems. They give us vague phrases instead of images, and personified qualities instead of men. They may be better... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge, but particularly in the creations of the 2 0 give us vague phrases instead of images, and personified qualities instead of men. They may be better... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...knowledge, but particularly in the creations of the imagi: Af.on. In proportion as men know more, and thinlc more, they look less at individuals and more at classes....therefore make better theories and worse poems. They give us vague phrases instead of images, and personified qualities instead of men. They may be better... | |
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In proportion as men know more and think more, they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. 
