And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. The Antiquary - Página 21873Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edward Lance Tarbuck - 1855 - 94 páginas
...; when what is now so active and so animated is deemed of ancient days and matter of antiquity ; " when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's," — whatever may then be concluded... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 páginas
...— when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. We often hear it said that the... | |
| John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...Ranke's History of the Popes. She (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigor, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's-f * Probably the original of Napoleon's... | |
| 1856 - 780 páginas
...were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may (and will) still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." CARROLL. PETEEJBOss, V*., February... | |
| 1859 - 664 páginas
...of departed glory, and when — to use the words of England's eloquent historian — "some traveler from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's ?" Yea, all flesh is grass, and... | |
| 1857 - 866 páginas
...the temple of Mecca, and she may still exist in undiminished vigour rchen some traveller from Nero Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Pauls" This whole passage is of singular... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 páginas
...— when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. We often hear it said that the... | |
| 1858 - 650 páginas
...progressing, and must England yet one day, be only a name, and a glory of the past; " When some traveler from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude " take his stand, according to Macaulay's patriotic fancy, which plays with a borrowed plume, " on a broken arch of London... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 444 páginas
...Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to O sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. We often hear it said that the... | |
| Alexander Alison - 1860 - 476 páginas
...assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all. The Chnrch of Rome may exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." I grant the cogency of this reasoning,... | |
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