 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
 | Emily Tennyson Bradley Smith ("Mrs. A. Murray Smith."), Mrs. A. Murray Smith - 1902 - 504 pages
...his remains still rest, notwithstanding the eloquent protest of Lord Macaulay, who considered that " the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers." Burke alone of the statesmen who were most prominent in the famous trial has no memorial here, but... | |
 | Sister Mary Lambertine - 1903 - 318 pages
...Hastings's 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...by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of this illustrious accused statesman should have mingled with the dust of his illustrious accusers. This... | |
 | Eleanor Childs Meehan - 1903 - 390 pages
...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...generations lie buried, in the great Abbey, which has in so many ages afforded a quiet resting place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered... | |
 | Emily Constance Baird Cook - 1903 - 510 pages
...inheritance. Westminster Abbey is " the silent meeting place of the dead of eight centuries," the " great temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried." Death is ever the great peacemaker. Round the mediaeval shrine of Edward the Confessor, in its faded... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1924 - 684 pages
...Scott, Introduction to Canto I. lines 125-128, 184-188. Compare, too, Macaulay on Warren Hastings : " In that temple of silence and reconciliation, where...twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey . . . the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.... | |
 | Mrs. Birchenough, Mrs. A. Murray Smith - 1905 - 124 pages
...a statesman who so well neither few nor small, only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation, where...generations lie buried, in the great Abbey, which has during so many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by... | |
 | 1906 - 866 pages
...long. As Macaulay said of Warren Hastings: Only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. ln that temple of silence and reconciliation where the...whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentious of the Great Hall lies Air. Gladstone; and is it odd that l sometimes say aloud to myself—... | |
 | 1903 - 626 pages
...eighty-sixth year of his age. " Only one cemetery," says Macaulay, " was worthy to contain his 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... | |
 | Sir Algernon West - 1908 - 302 pages
...long. As Macaulay said of Warren Hastings : — " Only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where...been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall " lies Mr. Gladstone ; and is it odd that I sometimes say aloud to myself : " When comes such another... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1908 - 344 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...Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet rest- . ing-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great... | |
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