With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has shown himself superior to the particular and predominant error of his own times; who, like the peak of Teneriffe, has hailed the intellectual sun before its beams have reached the horizon of common minds.


Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (ed. 1823)

Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has ...

With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has ...

With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has ...

With respect to the authority of great names, it should be remembered that he alone deserves to have any weight and influence with posterity, who has ...