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 - 1866 - 758 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 baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 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...dust of the illustrious accusers. This was not to be. Tet the place of interment was not ill chosen. Behind the chancel of the parish church of Daylesford,... | |
| Charles Edwards Lester - 1866 - 312 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...mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers." This is bold and shameless eulogy of a man of whom Burke said, in closing the exordium of the impeachment... | |
| 1867 - 894 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... | |
| William Davis (B.A.) - 1867 - 80 pages
...great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet restingplace to those, whose minds and oodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great...should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.—Macaulay. 36. The darksome cave they enter, where they found The accursed man, low sitting... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 732 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... | |
| Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1872 - 722 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...illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of his illustrious accusers." These aisles in which Addison delighted to linger, in his life time, and... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 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...dust of the illustrious accusers. This was not to be. Tet the place of interment was not ill chosen. Behind the chancel of the parish church of Daylesford,... | |
| John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 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...been sh'attered by the contentions of the Great Hall. On Warren Hastings. In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men... | |
| William C. Pearce - 1876 - 252 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 contentions of the great hal], the dust of the illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.... | |
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