 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1909 - 678 pages
...Genius of Poetry in 15 general, and of its Elevation in these two Particulars, that I know not whether of all the Numbers of Mankind that live within the...Years, for one Man that is born capable of making such a Poet as Homer or Virgil, there may not be a Thousand born Capable of 20 making as great Generals... | |
 | Rudolf Kahn - 1910 - 144 pages
...together of moral wisdom clothed in consummate beauty. Sir Wm. Temple observes, ,That of all the members of mankind that live within the compass of a thousand years, for one man that is capable of making a great poet, there may be a thousand born capable of making as great generals or... | |
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I know not whether of all the numbers of mankind that live within the compass of a thousand years... 
