 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 522 pages
...time, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly; and on the thirteenth 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.... | |
 | 1903 - 672 pages
...to the animated and strenuous conflicts of Pitt and Fox. . . . 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 grownup children than that which was then exhibited at... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1904 - 566 pages
...HASTINGS THE preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly ; and on the I3th of February, 1788, the sittings of the court commenced. There have been...calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, and imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant,... | |
 | Oneida Historical Society at Utica - 1905 - 474 pages
...the most brilliant orators of their age; and, as- the picture rises before the historian, he exclaims "perhaps there never was a spectacle so well calculated...highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind." Yet to the highly cultivated, the reflective and the imaginative mind, that convention in Philadelphia... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - 1905 - 330 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...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 Jennings Bryan - 1906 - 278 pages
...this memorable scene: "There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grownup children,...then exhibited at Westminster, but. perhaps, there wax never a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - 1906 - 280 pages
...beginning on February 13. Macaulay in his essay on Warren Hastinss, has described this memorable scene: * There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to gro*\ nup children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1907 - 196 pages
...time, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly ; and on the thirteenth of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. ( There have...but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well 10 calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1907 - 216 pages
...meantime, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly; and 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... | |
 | Charles H.Sylevester - 1909 - 594 pages
...minority. The preparations for the trial proceeded 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... | |
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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... 
