With all his faults, — and they were neither few nor small, — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during... Historical Essays - Page 379by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 501 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1842 - 654 pages
...faults — and they were neither few nor small — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation, where...generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has for ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...faults—and they were neither few nor small—only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation, where...generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has for ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the... | |
| 1860 - 620 pages
...where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried — to the Great Abbey which has during many years afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds...shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall." The funeral obsequies were marked by no outward pomp or display ; they were those of a private gentlemen... | |
| 1852 - 638 pages
...the fierce vicissitudes of the strife of statesmen, we are dismissed with a majestic allusion to " that temple of silence and reconciliation, where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, the great Abbey, which has, during so many ages, aßiirded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...faults — and they were neither few nor small — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation, where...generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has for ages afforded a quiet resting place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1851 - 608 pages
...the fierce vicissitudes of the strife of statesmen, we are dismissed with a majestic allusion to " that temple of silence and reconciliation, where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, the great Abbey, which has, during so many ages, afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1852 - 750 pages
...reconciliation, where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, the great Abbey, which has, during so many ages, afforded a quiet resting-place to those...been shattered by the contentions of the great Hall." Mr. Macaulay has, himself, borne no mean part among " the chiefs of the eloquent war." He entered Parliament... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1852 - 742 pages
...enmities of twenty generations lie buried, the great Abbey, which has, during so many ages, aflbrded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...been shattered by the contentions of the great Hall." Mr. Macaulay has, himself, borne no mean part among " the chiefs of the eloquent war." He entered Parliament... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 pages
...faults, — and they were neither few nor small, — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie O 3 buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose... | |
| 1855 - 604 pages
...faults, and they were neither few nor small, — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation, where...enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the GREAT ABIIEY, which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have... | |
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