 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 368 páginas
...calm but indomitable force of will which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. The poor orphan boy became one of the most powerful men of...leader of extraordinary courage and determination. As he once said when surrounded with difficulties in one of his campaigns, " They only make my feet... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1861 - 448 páginas
...calm but indomitable force of will which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. The poor orphan boy became one of the most powerful men of...Daylesford. And when his long public life, so singularly checkered with good and evil, with glory and obloquy, had at length closed forever, it was to Daylesford... | |
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This purpose, formed in infancy and poverty, grew stronger as his intellect expanded and as his fortune rose. He pursued his plan with that calm but indomitable force of will which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical... 
