| 1842 - 654 páginas
...force of will, which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, his hopes, amidst...ever, it was to Daylesford that he retired to die. When he was eight years old, his uncle, Howard, determined to take charge of him, and to give him a... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 páginas
...force of will, which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, his hopes, amidst...ever, it was to Daylesford that he retired to die. When he was eight years old, his uncle, Howard, determined to take charge of him, and to give him a... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 354 páginas
...force of will, which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, his hopes, amidst...Daylesford. And when his long public life, so singularly checkered with good and evil, with glory and obloquy, had at length closed for ever, it was at Daylesford... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 páginas
...millions of Asiatics ; " but," says Lord Macaulay, " when his long public life, so singularly checkered with good and evil, with glory and obloquy, had at length closed forever, it was to Daylsford he retired to die." Pages might be filled with the names of those statesmen... | |
| 1859 - 620 páginas
...millions of Asiatics ; " but," says Lord Macaulay, " when his long public life, so singularly checkered with good and evil, with glory and obloquy, had at length closed forever, it was to Daylsford he retired to die." Pages might be filled with the names of those statesmen... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 páginas
...force of will which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, his hopes, amidst...evil, with glory and obloquy, had at length closed forever, it was to Daylesthat he retired to die. When he was eight years old, his uncle Howard determined... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 páginas
...force of will which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. AVhen, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, his hopes, amidst...evil, with glory and obloquy, had at length closed forever, it was to Daylesford that he retired to die. When he was eight years old, his uncle Howard... | |
| John Timbs - 1860 - 332 páginas
...Asiaties, his hopes, (midst all the cares of war, finance, and legislation, still pointed to Daylsford. And when his long public life, so singularly chequered...obloquy, had at length closed for ever, it was to CayUford he retired to die " GIBBON, THE HISTORIAN — HIS SCHOOLS AND PLAN OF STUDY. Edward Gibbon,... | |
| 1861 - 686 páginas
...at Daylesford had been sold to strangers. He determined to recover it. " When under a tropical sun he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, his hopes, amidst...ever, it was to Daylesford that he retired to die." In 1669, when the French aristocracy* was becoming too numerous to maintain its ancient independence,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 páginas
...force of will which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, his hopes, amidst...ever, it was to Daylesford that he retired to die. When he was eight years old, his uncle Howard determined to take charge of him, and to give him a liberal... | |
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