[lemma=than] [tag=PRP] □
[lemma=than] [tag=PRP] [□]
[lemma=than] [tag=PRP] []
ii ) , he even acknowledged John the Baptist to be greater than he ; while it must be patent to every reader that no man could be greater than the almighty , supreme Potentate of heaven and earth , in any sense whatever . And yet the one , being itself in itself , will also surround and be without itself ; and , as containing itself , will be greater than itself ; and , as contained in itself , will be less ; and will thus be greater and less than itself . No man has less taste for disagreeable duties than myself ; perhaps there is only one subject on which I cannot flatter a man without a blush ; but upon that , upon all that touches art , my sincerity is Roman . The masses of people are carried along , obedient to environment ; the wills and desires of others stronger than themselves ; heredity ; suggestion ; and other outward causes moving them about like pawns on the Chessboard of Life . There entered a tall young man of consumptive features , accompanied by a stout , florid woman , older than himself ; and upon this couple followed half-a-dozen miscellaneous callers , some of whom Alma knew . The benefits which a sovereign bestoweth on a subject , for fear of some power and ability he hath to do hurt to the Commonwealth , are not properly rewards : for they are not salaries , because there is in this case no contract supposed , every man being obliged already not to do the Commonwealth disservice : nor are they graces , because they be extorted by fear , which ought not to be incident to the sovereign power : but are rather sacrifices , which the sovereign , considered in his natural person , and not in the person of the Commonwealth , makes for the appeasing the discontent of him he thinks more potent than himself ; and encourage not to obedience , but , on the contrary , to the continuance and increasing of further extortion . Yet , I 'll say that for him , he stood stoutly for tithes , though , in my opinion , few deserved them less than he ; and it may be he would be better without them . The restaurant was a place I had often visited experimentally , to taste the life of students then more unfortunate than myself ; and I had never in those days entered it without disgust , or left it without nausea . His neighbour , who does , is probably a happier man than he ; but could he be persuaded of this , the persuasion would , most likely , only still further exasperate his malignity or his irritability . How it happened that , in England , the operations of the king 's ever dependent Instruments , the official Judges , ( not to speak of the equally dependent instruments of his imperfectly subjected subordinates , the great Barons , ) found themselves , in the infancy of the constitution , incumbered , and to so great an extent , by the presence and interference of a determinate number of unofficial assessors , still more ignorant than themselves ; while , in the other part of the same island , the incumbrance was confined to the criminal division of the field of law , and even there to the upper parts of the ground ; and while , on the continent , either no such incumbrance was ever known , or was at a very early period got rid of ; these are among those points of legal history , the obscurity of which seems to have given them up beyond redemption to the arbitrary dominion of conjecture . Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself ; but talent instantly recognizes genius , and MacDonald had talent enough for his profession to enable him to perceive that there was no humiliation in seeking the assistance of one who already stood alone in Europe , both in his gifts and in his experience .