 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
 | 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 : —... | |
 | 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 by the contentions of the Great Hall. As a rule, when a sentence contains a thought which should be given special emphasis, greater force... | |
 | George Bruce Malleson - 1894 - 592 pages
...Abbey which has during mm;. ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies luvo been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the illustri' "accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers. This was not to be.... | |
 | 1895 - 800 pages
...in the Great Abbey which has during1 many ages afforded a quiet restingplace to those whose rninds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions...was not to be. Yet the place of interment was not ill chosen. Behind the chancel of the parish church of Davlesford, in Mirth which already held the... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - 1896 - 492 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Train Dutton - 1896 - 168 pages
...noblest form the immortal influence of Athens. 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. — Macaulay. The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon... | |
 | Samuel Train Dutton - 1902 - 168 pages
...noblest form the immortal influence of Athens. In the Great Abbey, which has, during many ages, afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies...should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.—Macaulay. XLV. The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 726 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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