 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1842 - 578 pages
...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...calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant,... | |
 | 1842 - 654 pages
...; Dundas with the minority. 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 jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...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 jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1846 - 708 pages
...jewellery and cloth tlon of the of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was now exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never...calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. Still the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant,... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...trial bad 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 jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1849 - 716 pages
...have been spectacles," says Mr. Macaulay, " more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more 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... | |
 | William McDowall - 1850 - 320 pages
...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 jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 370 pages
...had proceeded rapidly; and on the thirteenth of February, 1788, the sittings of the Court commenced. 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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 528 pages
...have been spectacles/ '.says Mr. Macaulay, "more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more 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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...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 jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited... | |
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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 at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to... 
