 | 1842 - 654 páginas
...manager. Pitt voted with the majority ; Dundas with the minority. and on the 13th of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, ihere never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 578 páginas
...more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster...a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 642 páginas
...mean time, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly ; and on the 13th of February, 1788, the sittings of the court commenced. There have been...with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 páginas
...mean time, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly; and on the 13th of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 páginas
...mean time, the preparations for his trial bad proceeded rapidly ; and on the 13th of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calcu lated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 páginas
...the trial.) The preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly ; and on the 13th of February 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 528 páginas
...deprived of office, he was the lowest in dignity. "There have been spectacles/ '.says Mr. Macaulay, "more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery...attractive to grown-up children, than that which was now exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 páginas
...time, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly ; and on the thirteenth of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 páginas
...n specere. THE preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly ; and on the 13th of February 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewelry and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 páginas
...time, the preparations for the trial had proceeded rapidly ; and on the thirteenth of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. There have been...a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present... | |
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There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated... 
