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" Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the... "
Critical and historical essays - Page 538
by Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 9

Henry Allon - 1849 - 604 pages
...Grecian ' eloquence still flourished at Antioch — when idols were still wor' shipped in Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished ' vigour when...London' bridge, to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's !' Before we quit this subject, let us briefly recapitulate that Catholicism, in no way superior to...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine

1868 - 978 pages
...eloquence still flourished at Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Specimens such as these testify to the greatness of the writer. Although rich in rhetorical embellishment,...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source : Passages ...

John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 pages
...of its July. / remember, I remember. THOMAS B. MACAULAY. 1800-1859. She (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some...broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.1 Rffiew of Rankf s History pf the Popts. /* , , ' .• ' ' The same image was employed by Macaulay...
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Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity in the Nineteenth Century ...

Albert Barnes - 1868 - 468 pages
...worshiped in the Temple of Mecca 5 and she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveler from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude,...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's."* * Review of Rimke's History of the Popes. Miscellanies, vol. iii., p. 320, 321. This is splendid writing...
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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D ..., Volume 18

David Thomas - 1868 - 404 pages
...his love. Macaulay once imagined that in some far distant day a "traveller from New Zealand might, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Such may happen. Neither London, nor St. Paul's, nor aught that is human on the earth is proof against...
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Treasury of Choice Quotations

Treasury - 1869 - 474 pages
...Independence. Letter to the Maine Whig Committee. THOMAS B. MACAULAY. 1800-1859. HE (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.* Review of Rankt?s History of the Popes. The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to...
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The Baptist Quarterly, Volume 3

Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1869 - 524 pages
...Christianity in England together, and only perishing in that final convulsion which Macaulay has imagined, " when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Studies in Philosophy and Theology. By JOSEPH HAVEN, DD, Professor in Chicago Theological Seminary....
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The Christian Examiner, Volume 79

1865 - 456 pages
...have been dead and buried more than a century ago. Now, it " may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." So Lord Macaulay prophesied. And, should it happen so, it will be through the agency of that society...
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The Invitation Heeded: Reasons for a Return to Catholic Unity

James Kent Stone - 1870 - 362 pages
...when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Now, if we went no further, we might content ourselves with saying that this passage is itself a sufficient...
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Bible Lore

James Comper Gray - 1870 - 360 pages
...inhabited by a scanty population of sad, ill-fed, and ill-governed people. If at some time that famous " traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's," some one may be disposed to suggest that Macauley's * " Review of Ranke's History of the Popes," should...
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