 There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated...  Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings - Page 166by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 578 pages
...gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there...and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot, and in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments, which are... | |
 | 1842 - 654 pages
...attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, ihere never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike...and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot, and in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments which are... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there...and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot, and in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments which are... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1846 - 708 pages
...spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. Still the various kinds of interest which belong to the...and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot and in one hour. All the talents, and all the accomplishments which are... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calcu lated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there...and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot, and in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments which are... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 528 pages
...gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was now exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never...highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. Still the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 536 pages
...spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. Still the various kinds of interest which belong to the...and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot and in one hour. All the talents, and all the accomplishments, which are... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there...and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot and in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments which are developed... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps there...and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot, and in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments which are... | |
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