 Westminster; but perhaps there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were...  Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings - Page 166by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 303 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1842 - 654 pages
...various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot, and in one hour. All the...accomplishments which are developed by liberty and chilization were now displayed, with every advantage that could be derived both from co-operation and... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 578 pages
...various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot, and in one hour. All the...accomplishments, which are developed by liberty and civilization, were now displayed, and every advantage that could be derived both from co-operation... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot, and in one hour. All the...displayed, with every advantage that could be derived from co-operation and from contrast. Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward,... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot, and in one hour. All the...displayed, with every advantage that could be derived from co-operation and from contrast. Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 354 pages
...various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot and in one hour. All the...accomplishments which are developed by liberty and civilization were now displayed, with every advantage that could be derived both from co-operation... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...various kinds of interest which belong to the near 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 arc developed by liberty and civilisation were now displayed, with every advantage that could be derived... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 480 pages
...various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot and in one hour. All the...proceedings carried the mind either backward through mnny troubled centuries to the days when the foundations of our constitution were laid ; or far away... | |
 | J C. Graham - 1861 - 134 pages
...various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot and in one hour. All the...accomplishments which are developed by liberty and civi7isation were now displayed, with every advantage that could be derived both from co-operation... | |
 | Henry Beveridge - 1862 - 932 pages
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 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1864 - 516 pages
...various kinds of interests which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past were collected on one spot and in one hour. All the...proceedings carried the mind either backward, through many centuries , to the days when the foundations of our constitution were laid ; or far away over boundless... | |
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