Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have proved pure, which have been weighed in the balance and have not been found wanting, which have been declared sterling... "
John Milton - Page 103
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 104 pages
Full view - About this book

Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...are not much in the habit of idolizing either the living or the dead. And we think that there is no more certain indication of a weak and ill-regulated...want of a better name, we will venture to christen Во»ъоеШвт. But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest...
Full view - About this book

Payne's universum, or pictorial world: engravings of ..., Issue 107, Volume 3

Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...We are not much in the habit of idolizing either the living or the dead ; and we think there is no more certain indication of a weak and ill-regulated...want of a better name, we will venture to christen HomnrllisM. But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests,...
Full view - About this book

Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To ...

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...are not much in the habit of idolising either the living or the dead. And we think -that there is no more certain indication of a weak and ill-regulated...proved pure, which have bee'n weighed in the balance ansl have not been found wanting, which have been declared sterling by the general consent of mankind,...
Full view - About this book

Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...are not much in the habit of idolizing either the living or the dead. And we think that there is no ct to the temporal interest of individuals; but with...to still fewer objections, and that for this reas Hottecllmn. But thtre art a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests,...
Full view - About this book

English Literature of the Nineteenth Century ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...than that propensity which, for want of a better name, we will venture to christen BosiceUism. liut there are a few characters which have stood the closest...tests; which have been tried in the furnace, and have 1 "A Treatise on Christian Doctrine, compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone." proved pure ; which...
Full view - About this book

English Literature of the Nineteenth Century ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...are not much in the habit of idolizing cither the living or the dead. And we think that there is no more certain indication of a weak and illregulated...want of a better name, we will venture to christen Boswdlitm. But there are a few characters which have stood the closest serutiny and the severest tests;...
Full view - About this book

The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. Essays

English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...are not much in the habit of idolizing either the living or the dead. And we think that there is no more certain indication of a weak and ill-regulated...want of a better name, we will venture to christen Roftnellism. But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest...
Full view - About this book

Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...are not much in the habit of idolizing either the living or the dead. And we think that there is no more certain indication of a weak and ill-regulated intellect than that propensity which, f; г want of a better name, we will venture to christen Hosu-ellism. But there are a few characters...
Full view - About this book

Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1853 - 658 pages
...are not much in the habit of idolizing either the living or the dead. And we think that there is no more certain indication of a weak and ill-regulated...christen Boswellism. But there are a few characters which Lave stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have...
Full view - About this book

English Literature of the Nineteenth Century: on the Plan of the Author's ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1853 - 800 pages
...are not much in the habit of idolizing cither the living or the dead. And we think that there is no more certain indication of a weak and ill-regulated...want of a better name, we will venture to christen BosweUlsm, But there, are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests,...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF