 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 234 pages
...the court commenced. There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children,...the various kinds of interest which belong to the 1 From Macaulay's Essays. near and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 240 pages
...mean time, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly; and on the I3th of February, 1788, the sittings of the court commenced. There have been...spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 pages
...the preparations for the trial had pro-" ceeded rapidly ; and on the thirteenth of February, 1788, the sittings of the court commenced. There have been...spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 240 pages
...mean time, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly; and on the I3th of February, 1788, the sittings of the court commenced. There have been...spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 pages
...meantime, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly ; and, on the Itith of February, 1788, the sittings of the court commenced. There have been...exhibited at Westminster ; " but, perhaps, there never waa a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly-cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Hastings.) - 1883 - 244 pages
...IN the meantime, the preparations for the trial had 15 proceeded rapidly; and on February 13, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited 20 at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1885 - 556 pages
...of its opening scene is from Macauluy's "Miscellaneous Essay**."] 1. ON the 13th of February, 1788, the sittings of the court commenced. There have been...spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | Arthur Martin Wheeler - 1886 - 400 pages
...mean time the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly, arid, on the i3th of February, 1788, the sittings of the court commenced. There have been...spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1888 - 366 pages
...mean time the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly, and on the I3th of February, 1788, the sittings of the court commenced. There have been...spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelery and cloth-of-gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay, George Dickson - 1890 - 186 pages
...meantime the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly, and on the thirteenth of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exibited at Westminster ; but perhaps there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly... | |
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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... 
