 Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history or fiction, whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities which are the proper objects...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 4201864Full view - About this book
 | 1844 - 574 pages
...express the opinion to which this investigation lias led us. Our opinion then is this, that Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In ,him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities... | |
 | 1870 - 726 pages
...with a Sketch of the History of Society in France. By Madame M . London, 1862. t C»merie« de Inndi. agency of the infamous Barrere. Barrere's cruelty...purchased of him their own lives and those of their frfcnds, and it is certain that his friendship and protection were no honour to any woman. This view... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 pages
...to express the opinion to which this investigation has led us. Our opinion then is this, that Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 pages
...to express the opinion to which this investigation has led us. Our opinion then is this, that Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...to express the opinion to which this investigation has led us, Our opinion then is this, that Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1856 - 588 pages
...cruel tyrants in any age or country. We cannot, indeed, say of him, as Macaulay has said of Barere, that he " approached nearer than any person mentioned...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity" ; but we may go on and say, that in him "the qualities which are the proper objects... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 340 pages
...express the opinion to which this investigation has led us. Our opinion then is this , that Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil , to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities... | |
 | Charles Frederic Hudson - 1860 - 490 pages
...them what they were. Let those who have read say whether Macaulay is rash in his opinion " that Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are proper objects of hatred, and the qualities which... | |
 | Charles Frederic Hudson - 1869 - 496 pages
...them what they were. Let those who have read say whether Macaulay is rash in his opinion " that Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are proper objects of hatred, and the qualities which... | |
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