To make the past present, to bring the distant near, to place us in the society of a great man or on the eminence which overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to... Englische Studien - Page 79edited by - 1883Full view - About this book
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 pages
...field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...houses, to seat us at their tables, to rummage their oldfashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture, these parts of the duty which... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too Austin Allibone oldfashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture, these parts of the duty which... | |
| Charles Knight - 1880 - 1316 pages
...field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom \ve are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...peculiarities of language, manners, and garb, to show us,.over their houses, to aeat us' at their ta,ble.s, to rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, to... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 844 pages
...consider as personified qualities in nn allegory, to call up our ancestors before us with all thiir peculiarities of language, manners, and garb, to show...over their houses, to se.at us at their tables, to rum in a ire Iheir old-fashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture, these... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 pages
...field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...houses, to seat us at their tables, to rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture, these parts of the duty... | |
| Morison - 1882 - 212 pages
...and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities in an allegory ; call up our ancestors before us with all their peculiarities of language, manners, and garb ; show us over their houses, seat us at their tables, rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, explain... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1883 - 1254 pages
...field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...manners, and garb, to show us over their houses, to scat us at their tables, to rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 pages
...field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too er ; and the versification throughout is, I believe,...can be shocked nt. The repeated permission you give Ianguage, manners, and garb, to show us over their houses, to seat us at their tables, to rummage their... | |
| Walter Debenham Sweeting, John Taylor - 1888 - 376 pages
...field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...houses, to seat us at their tables, to rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture . . . parts of the duty which... | |
| Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1884 - 388 pages
...bring the distant near; to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...their peculiarities of language, manners, and garb these parts of the duty which properly belongs to the historian have been appropriated by the historical... | |
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