 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...  Warren Hastings - Page 106by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, George Dickson - 1890 - 125 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 536 pages
...jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive .to grown-up children, than that which was now exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...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...All the talents and all the accomplishments which arc developed by liberty and civilisation were now displayed, with every advantage that could be derived... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 pages
...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...imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest wliich belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one... | |
 | J C. Graham - 1861 - 134 pages
...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 to strike a highly cultivated, a reflect;?^ and imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to... | |
 | Henry Beveridge - 1862 - 932 pages
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 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1864 - 516 pages
...jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grow-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but perhaps there never was a spectacle...reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interests which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past were collected... | |
 | Henry Beveridge - 1867 - 984 pages
...cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot, ami in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments which are develop! by liberty and civilization... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; 2 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... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1869 - 498 pages
...jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was thon exlùbited at Westminster; but perhaps there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated,a reflecting, an Imaginative mind. AU the various kinds of interests which belong to the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 pages
...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...the distant, to the present and to the past, were collccttd on one spot, and in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments which are developed... | |
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