 | 1865 - 632 pages
...attendants in appropriate costume which belonged to each department; — combined to form an array for which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the history of ceremonial ; and when to these are added the purely ecclesiastical functionaries, for whose... | |
 | 1825 - 482 pages
...New Granada, under the same form of government. We now come to one of those great political crimes for which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the history of revolutions, and over which, for the honour of Spain, we would gladly draw a veil. The royalist... | |
 | William Finden, Edward Francis Finden, William Andrew Chatto, William Beattie - 1842 - 294 pages
...occasioned by the vast improvements in regard to its inland port, present a combination of attractions for which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the British provinces. Commercial enterprise has now a fixed residence in the place ; and within the last... | |
 | William Grattan - 1847 - 366 pages
...bravery ; and it is only to be lamented that they tarnished laurels so nobly won by traits of barbarity for which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the annals of any army. But such atrocities are ever the attendants upon anything where those, hitherto... | |
 | Sir George Nicholls - 1856 - 446 pages
...its failure led to a still more rapid decrease, accompanied by an amount of suffering and privation for which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the history of any people. The expenditure from the rates for relief of the poor in all the 163 unions... | |
 | 1865 - 1022 pages
...attendants in appropriate costume which belonged to each department ; — com bined to form an array for which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the history of ceremonial ; and when to these are added the purely ecclesiastical functionaries, for whose... | |
 | 1876 - 862 pages
...the working and condition of the Secondary Schools they performed with a meagreness and feebleness for which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the Report of any other Royal Commission. And yet they had no ]a?k of materials on which tofound a judgment.... | |
 | 1879 - 562 pages
...with the Turkish Question, he was attacked by a portion of the press with a ferocity and indecency for which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the journalism of this generation. No slander seemed to be too stupid or too gross to be used against him... | |
 | Charles Locke Eastlake - 1884 - 296 pages
...details as the jewelled enrichment of dresses, &c. , has been bestowed an amount of elaborate finish for which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the Gallery. The merits of this work speak for themselves ; of its defects, it is to be feared not a few... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1889 - 364 pages
...never questioned, were duly gathered and laid before Washington. The deed was one of wanton barbarity, for which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the annals of modern warfare. The authors of this brutal murder, to our shame be it said, were of American... | |
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A personal and apparently immaterial event produced a revolution of public feeling, for which it would be difficult to find a parallel in the history of English politics. 
