With all his faults, — and they were neither few nor small, — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during... Historical Essays - Page 379by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 501 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Edwards Lester - 1866 - 312 pages
...faults — and they were neither few nor small — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where...mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers." This is bold and shameless eulogy of a man of whom Burke said, in closing the exordium of the impeachment... | |
| William Davis (B.A.) - 1867 - 80 pages
...broad and swift Mississippi Floated a cumbrous boat.—Lonfffelloio. 35. In that temple of science and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations...afforded a quiet restingplace to those, whose minds and oodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused... | |
| 1867 - 894 pages
...faults — and they were neither few nor small — only one cemetery was worthy to contain hie remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation, where...generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has for ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the... | |
| Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...peerage in 1857, he died on the 21st of December 1859, and was buried, to use his own words, " in that Great Abbey, which has during many ages afforded a...resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been chattered by the contentions of the Great Hall." WORKS. Macaulay has won high fame as poet, orator,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 612 pages
...Embankment Commission are carried out, and the ugly modern houses near it are pulled down, we leave the " temple of silence and reconciliation, where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried," equally convinced of the excellence of the arrangements now in force for showing the cathedral, and... | |
| Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1869 - 804 pages
...died 1826. ' neither few nor small, only one cemetery was worthy to con- Canning, ' tain his remains. In that Temple of silence and reconciliation ' where...enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the 1862. ' Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet Hastings, ' resting-place to those... | |
| Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1872 - 722 pages
...Hastings, whose bust is in the Abbey, but who was buried at Daylesford, wrote in a similar vein : " In that Temple of silence and reconciliation, where...Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 pages
...faults, — and they were neither few nor small, — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where...dust of the illustrious accusers. This was not to be. Tet the place of interment was not ill chosen. Behind the chancel of the parish church of Daylesford,... | |
| William Morley Punshon - 1873 - 400 pages
...proudest token of his power. 94 If Macaulay had an ambition dearer than the rest, it was that he might lie in " that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried ; " and the walls of Westminster Abbey do enclose him "in their tender and solemn gloom." Not in ostentatious... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pages
...the dismaying solitude. Henry Kirke White, Time. In the firm expectation, that when London shall be In that temple of silence and reconciliation where...been sh'attered by the contentions of the Great Hall. On Warren Hastings. In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men... | |
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