| 1837 - 608 pages
...understanding resembled the tent which the fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed. Fold it, and it seemed a toy for the hand of a lady. Spread it, and the armies...of powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade. In keenness of observation he has been equalled, though perhaps never surpassed. But the largeness... | |
| 1838 - 870 pages
...understanding resembled the tent which the fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed. Fold it, and it itemed a toy for the hand of a lady. Spread it, and the armies...of powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade. In keenness of observation he has been equalled, though perhaps never surpassed, but the largeness... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 512 pages
...understanding resembled the tent which the fairy Paribanon gave to Prince Ahmed. Fold it ; and it seemed a toy for the hand of a lady. Spread it, and the armies...of powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade. In keenness of observation he has been equalled, though perhaps never surpassed. But the largeness... | |
| Stephen Collins - Essays - 1842 - 318 pages
...compared to the tent which "Paribanou, the fairy, presented to Prince Ahmed. Fold it, and it seemed a toy for the hand of a lady. Spread it, and the armies...powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade." While he stood on an eminence, and extended his view over the great ocean of knowledge, his attention... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...understanding resembled the tent which the fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed. Fold it ; and it seemed a toy for the hand of a lady. Spread it ; and the...of powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade. In keenness of observation he has been equalled, though perhaps never surpassed. But the largeness... | |
| Samuel Tyler - Philosophy - 1844 - 214 pages
...induction "resembles the tent which the fairy Paribahou gave to Prince Ahmed. Fold it, and it seemed a toy for the hand of a lady. Spread it, and the armies...powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade." When it is the toy for the hand of a lady, we may use it without the aid of precepts, but when it is... | |
| American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...tent which the Fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed ; fold it, and it seemed a toy for a lady's hand ; spread it, and the armies of powerful sultans might repose beneath its shade. This power of illustration, which arises from a quick " perception of resemblances in things dissimilar,"... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...understanding resembled the lent which the fairy Panbanou gave to Prince Ahmed. Fold it, and it seemed b } 3 y In keenness of observation he has been ••oualled, though perhaps never surpassed. buv the largeness... | |
| 1849 - 588 pages
...tent which the Fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed ; foM it, and it seemed a toy for a lady's hand ; spread it, and the armies of powerful sultans might repose beneath its shade. This power of illustration, which arises from a quick " perception of resemblances in things dissimilar,"... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 338 pages
...understanding resembled the tent which the fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed. Fold it; and it seemed a toy for the hand of a lady. Spread it; and the armies...of powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade. In keenness of observation he has been equalled, though perhaps never surpassed. But the largeness... | |
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