Those who roused the people to resistance, who directed their measures through a long series of eventful years, who formed, out of the most unpromising materials, the finest army that Europe had ever seen, who trampled down King, Church, and Aristocracy,... Cambridge Essays - Page 681858Full view - About this book
| 1835 - 932 pages
...measures through a long series of eventful years, — who formed, out of the most unpromising materials, the finest army that Europe had ever seen, — who...on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like the signs of freemasonry, or the dresses... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...through a long series of eventful years, • — who formed, out of the most unpromising materials, the finest army that Europe had ever seen, — who...on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like the signs of freemasonry, or the dresses... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1840 - 644 pages
...measures throughja long series of eventful years — who formed, out of the most unpromising materials, the finest army that Europe had ever seen — who...on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like the signs of free-masonry, or the dresses... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...the finest army that Europe had ever seen—who trampled down King, Church, and Aristocracy—who, in the short intervals of domestic sedition and rebellion,...name of England terrible to every nation on the face 1 of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...measures through a long series of eventful years — who formed, out of the most unpromising materials, the finest army that Europe had ever seen — who...on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like Xhe signs of freemasonry or the dresses of... | |
| Samuel Smiles - Ireland - 1844 - 524 pages
...measures through a long serien of eventful years, — who formed, out of the most unpromising materials, the finest army that Europe had ever seen — who...the face of the earth — were no vulgar fanatics." With all their whining and groaning, their uncouth names and visages, their close-cropped hair and... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...measures through a long series of eventful years — who formed, out of the most unpromising materials, e Peacock 8 * Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like the signs of freemasonry or the dresses of... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...measures through a long series of eventful years — who formed out of the most unpromising materials, the finest army that Europe had ever seen — who...on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. Most of their absurdities were mere external badges, like the signs of free-masonry, or the dresses... | |
| James William Massie - Conscience - 1847 - 228 pages
...intervals of domestic sedition and rebellion — formed and plotted by the monarchies of Europe — made the name of England terrible to every nation on the face of the earth, — were no vulgar faaatics. To civil and military affairs they brought a coolness of judgment and an immutability of... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...measures through a long series of eventful years — who formed, out of the most unpromising materials, the finest army that Europe had ever seen — who...on the face of the earth, were no vulgar fanatics. They were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior... | |
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