 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 508 páginas
...presentiment of approaching events which gave so much authority lo the counsel of Shaftesbury, that " it was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God." In this school Thucydides studied ; and his wisdom is that which such a school would naturally afford.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 470 páginas
...presentiment of approaching events, which gave so much authority to the counsel of Shaftesbury, that ' it was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God.' In this school Thucydides studied ; and his wisdom is that which such a school would naturally afford.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 páginas
...presentiment of approaching events, which gave so much authority to the counsel of Shaftesbury, that " it was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God." In this school Thucydides studied; and his wisdom is that which such a school would naturally afford.... | |
 | 1849 - 742 páginas
...horror." Ashley, full of levity and selfishness, " had served and betrayed a succession of governments." " Lauderdale, loud and coarse both in mirth and anger, was perhaps, under the outward show of boisterous frankness, the most dishonest in the Cubai. He had been conspicuous among... | |
 | 1849 - 588 páginas
...full of levity and selfishness, " had served and betrayed a succession of governments." " Lauderdalc, loud and coarse both in mirth and anger, was perhaps, under the outward show of boisterous frankness, the most dishonest in the Cabal. He had been conspicuous among... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 páginas
...prosperity which, while everything else was constantly changing, remained unchangeable, attributed to him a prescience almost miraculous, and likened him to the Hebrew statesman of whom it is written that Viia counsel was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God. Lauderdale, loud and coarse both in... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 342 páginas
...had ever pretended to be. But on him they were lost. The counsel of Ahithophel, that counsel which was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God, was turned into foolishness. He who had become a byword, for the certainty with which he foresaw and... | |
 | 1852 - 778 páginas
...presentiment of approaching events, which pave so much authority to the counsel of Shaftesbury, that " it was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God." In this school Thucydidei studied ; and his wisdom is that which such a ichool would naturally afford.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 páginas
...had ever pretended to be. But on him they were lost. The counsel of Ahithophel, that counsel which was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God, was turned into foolishness. He who had become a by-word, for the certainty with which he foresaw and... | |
 | Robert Shittler - 1853 - 718 páginas
...of Ahithophel. He was a very wise man. The counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, ard, for six hundred thousand and three thousand a (ch. xvi. 23.) He had been David's bosom friend and counsellor. " No one professed a greater regard... | |
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a prescience almost miraculous, and likened him to the Hebrew statesman of whom it is written that his counsel was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God. Lauderdale, loud and coarse, both in mirth and anger, was perhaps, under the 
