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. Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 401por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| sir Alan Henry Bellingham (4th bart.), Prosper Charles A. baron de Haulleville - 1878 - 344 páginas
...on Britain — before the Frank had passed the Rhine — when Grecian eloquence still flourished in Antioch — when idols were still worshipped in the...is constantly becoming more and more enlightened, and that this enlightening must be favourable to Protestantism and unfavourable to Catholicism. We... | |
| John Francis Maguire, James Laird Patterson - 1878 - 450 páginas
...foot on Britain, before the Frank had passed the Rhine, when Grecian eloquence still flourished in Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple...of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. The Council of the Vatican is the nineteenth (Ecumenical Council which has been held up to the present... | |
| Prosper de Haulleville - 1878 - 350 páginas
...idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in imdiTniniHhp.fi vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...is constantly becoming more and more enlightened, and that this enlightenment must be favorable to Protestantism, and unfavorable to Catholicism. We... | |
| Daniel Dunglas Home - 1878 - 482 páginas
...Christ. Supported by these and nobler aids, the Church of Rome may, in the words of a great critic, "exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." This is not a consummation devoutly to be wished, but it is decidedly one to be feared. If Protestantism... | |
| 1883 - 1052 páginas
...when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. . . . " But we can see that, during two hundred and fifty years, Protestantism has made no conquests... | |
| 1924 - 970 páginas
...Macaulay, in his essay on Ranke's History of the Popes, gives us a forecast of a dim and distant future, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. Macaulay was a patriotic Englishman, and his little sally of fancy is not to be taken seriously. Were... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1976 - 436 páginas
...(p. 235) New Zealander of the grand English History. An allusion to Macaulay's prophecy that one day 'some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst...of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's'. The prediction occurs not in Macaulay's History of England but in his essay ' Von Ranke', Edinburgh... | |
| Hugh Kenner - 1987 - 404 páginas
...structure of yet another kind. Joyce's list of some 600 misprints 1 " And she (the Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Joyce has given " Nuzuland " the backward colonial connotations of Zululand, and, presumably in recognition... | |
| David Allan Hamer - 1990 - 404 páginas
...1887), pp. 217-18. 43. In his Essay on Ranke's History of the Popes, TB Macaulay prophesied a time "when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." 44. BI Coleman, ed., The Idea of the City in Nineteenth-Century Britain (London and Boston: Routledge... | |
| David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 páginas
...of the capitals of her stately cathedrals, " or where a traveler from the then-advanced society of New Zealand "shall, in the midst of a vast solitude,...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." In his own form of the old concept of translatio imperii, Macaulay understood, without gloom or regret,... | |
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