| John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...vigor, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.* Reciew of Ranke's Historg of the Popes. * The same image was employed by Macaulay in 1824, in the concluding... | |
| 1866 - 650 páginas
...many wounded, yea, many strong men have been slain by her." "We often hear it said," says Macaulay, " that the world is constantly becoming more and more...unfavourable to Catholicism. We wish that we could think so. ... A very common knowledge of history, and тегу little observation of life will suffice to prove... | |
| Thomas Hornblower Gill - 1866 - 536 páginas
...vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall in the midst of a vast solitude take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.' Such a disposition of events is exceedingly unlikely. It is to be expected that a system like Romanism... | |
| william harrison ainsworth - 1866 - 518 páginas
..." when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's."! Here we have the passage in its completest form and best apparel, point device,—a triumph of condensed,... | |
| William Anderson (D.D.) - 1866 - 354 páginas
...vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Is it really so ? Are all the struggles of the ages fruitless? No; [in this quotation Macaulay is as... | |
| 1866 - 992 páginas
...vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.' " Such a disposition of events is exceedingly unlikely. It is to be expected that a system like Romanism,... | |
| Robert Hall Baynes - 1873 - 720 páginas
...vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." After tracing the great insurrections of the human intellect VOL. xm. G against her yoke previously... | |
| Roses - 1867 - 172 páginas
...vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand, in the midst of a vast solitude, takes his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's. Macaulay. The ceremonial of the world is not without its use : it may indeed take from warmth of friendship,... | |
| 730 páginas
...relegated to that far-distant day when Macaulay's traveller from New Zealand shall ' take his stand upon a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.' It seems, however, to the writer that the peril by which our supremacy as a manufacturing nation is... | |
| Albert Barnes - 1868 - 468 páginas
...vigor when some traveler from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's."* * Review of Rimke's History of the Popes. Miscellanies, vol. iii., p. 320, 321. This is splendid writing... | |
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