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... Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 144by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860Full view - About this book
| Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 340 pages
...the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...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... | |
| Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 342 pages
...the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...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... | |
| Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 338 pages
...the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...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... | |
| Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 336 pages
...the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 420 pages
...the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 432 pages
...the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...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... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 344 pages
...London belonging to the City Council. buried, in the Great Abbey 1 which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the 5 illustrious accusers. This was not to be. Yet the place of interment was not ill chosen. Behind the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 260 pages
...the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...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... | |
| Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 132 pages
...the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.' 2 A monument by Bacon, jun. Jonas Hanway (1788), 'the friend and father of the poor,' best known as... | |
| George Prentiss Butler - 1894 - 284 pages
...generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered...mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers. By altering the order of clauses, the foregoing sen tences become loose sentences ; as follows : —... | |
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