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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... "
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 144
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860
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Westminster Abbey

Mrs. Birchenough, Mrs. A. Murray Smith - 1905 - 122 pages
...enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey, which has during so many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...great Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should NORTH TRANSEPT FRONT (Eighteenth century). •ppreciated their desires and their destinies." From Inscription...
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Methodist Magazine and Review, Volume 57

1903 - 626 pages
...where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has for ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have been mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers. This was not to be. Yet the place of interment...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 249

1906 - 866 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 have been shattered by the contentious of the Great Hall lies Air. Gladstone; and is it odd that l sometimes say aloud to myself—...
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Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1907 - 216 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...
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English Composition: Eight Lectures Given at the Lowell Institute

Barrett Wendell - 1908 - 342 pages
...generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet rest- . ing-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered...was not to be. Yet \ the place of interment was not ill chosen. Behind the chancel of the parish church of Daylesf ord, in earth which ' already held the...
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One City and Many Men

Sir Algernon West - 1908 - 282 pages
...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...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...
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English Grammar and Composition

Alexander Malcolm Williams - 1909 - 454 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...
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Macaulay's Essays on Clive and Hastings

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1910 - 326 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...dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled 25 with the dust of the illustrious accusers. This was not to be. Yet the place of interment was not...
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Macaulay's Essays on Clive and Hastings

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1910 - 300 pages
...shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled 25 with the dust of the illustrious accusers. This was not to be. Yet the place of interment was not ill chosen. Behind the chancel of the parish ehurch of Daylesford, in earth which already held the...
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Essays on Clive and Hastings

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911 - 346 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...the illustrious accused should have mingled with the 25 dust of the illustrious accusers. This was not to be. Yet the place of interment was not ill chosen....
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