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" 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 379
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1921 - 501 pages
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The Centennial Celebrations of the State of New York: Prepared Pursuant to a ...

New York (State). Secretary's Office, Allen C. Beach - 1879 - 522 pages
...and a number of his descendants." ADDRESS BY GRENYILLE TREMAIN. Мл. PRESIDENT AND FELLOW CITIZENSIn that temple of silence and reconciliation where the...enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the tender and solemn gloom of that venerable abbey wherein is gathered the honored dust of England's bravest...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 828 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...was not to be. Yet the place of interment was not ill-chosen. Behind the chancel of theparish church of Paylesford, in earth which already held the bones...
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Some Summer Days Abroad

William Stevens Perry - 1880 - 282 pages
...numerous princes and princesses of royal blood. It is Macaulay who reminds us that this is " the great temple of silence and reconciliation, where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried ;" and so, as we pass "through rows of warriors and through walks of kings," we are confronted by the...
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Guide to preliminary army examination

John Gibson - 1881 - 302 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...have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hnll, the dust of tho illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers....
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Church missionary intelligencer

1881 - 780 pages
...calls it, " where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried ; the great Abbey which has during so many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those...been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall." England's great Ancestral Temple ! Does it differ, save in the outward symbols of incense and sacrifice,...
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Biographical and Historical Lectures: Comprising: The Prophet of Horeb, John ...

William Morley Punshon - 1881 - 296 pages
...proudest token of his power. 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 the great Abbey do enclose him "in their tender and solemn gloom." Not in ostentatious...
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Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 1084 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...was not to be. Yet the place of interment was not ill-chosen. Behind the chancel of the parish church of Daylesford, in earth which already held the...
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Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1882 - 634 pages
...which has during many hurtviiat * ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose tttyusford. ' minds and bodies have been shattered by the ' contentions...mingled with the dust of the illustrious ' accusers.' ' Though this was not to be, and though his Hf< bust remains lie by the parish church of his ancestral...
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Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1882 - 372 pages
...cemetery was worthy to contain ' his remains. In that Temple of silence and reconcilia\vamn ' ^ on where the enmities of twenty generations lie ' buried, in the Great Abbey which • has during 1 many ' ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose < minds and bodies hare been shattered...
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Lectures

William Morley Punshon - 1882 - 520 pages
...proudest token of his power. 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 the great Abbey do enclose him " in their tender and solemn gloom." Not in ostentatious...
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