| Lewis S. Feuer - 524 pages
...affected Hume. Toward the German military state, he felt much as did the Hume who wrote how he was 'delighted to see the daily and hourly progress of madness and folly and wickedness of England'. Awaiting the crushing of Berlin militarism, Einstein might have spoken as the Hume who... | |
| Paul Henderson Scott - 1998 - 132 pages
...Decayd nor depravd here, as with the Barbarians who inhabit the Banks of the Thames" (April, 1764).22 "I am delighted to see the daily and hourly Progress of Madness and Folly and Wickedness in England" (Oct. 1769). 23 "It has been my misfortune to write in the Language of the most stupid and factious... | |
| Paul Henderson Scott - 1999 - 98 pages
...his feelings about England in such remarks as: "the Barbarians who inhabit the Banks of the Thames"; "the daily and hourly Progress of Madness and Folly and Wickedness in England"; and "it has been my misfortune to write in the language of the most stupid and factious Barbarians... | |
| George Otto Trevelyan - 1899 - 488 pages
...me. All my friends encourage me in this ambition, as thinking it will redound very much to my honor. "I am delighted to see the daily and hourly progress...the true ingredients for making a fine narrative in 1" ' if followed bv some sisrnal and ruinous ™ni-- ' censorship; a Parliament where the minority... | |
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