The ostentatious simplicity of their dress, their sour aspect, their nasal twang, their stiff posture, their long graces, their Hebrew names, the Scriptural phrases which they introduced on every occasion, their contempt of human learning, their detestation... Macaulay's Essays on Addison and Milton - Page 36by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 212 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1835 - 932 pages
...themselves ; and the public would not take them under its protection. They were therefore abandoned, without reserve, to the tender mercies of the satirists and...dramatists. The ostentatious simplicity of their dress, Iheir sour aspect, their nasal twang, their stiff posture, their long graces, their Hebrew names, the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...themselves ; and the public would not take them under its protection. They were therefore abandoned, without reserve, to the tender mercies of the satirists and...laughers alone that the philosophy of history is to be learnt. And he who approaches this subject should carefully guard against the influence of that potent... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...themselves ; and the public would not take them under its protection. They were therefore abandoned, without reserve, to the tender mercies of the satirists and...introduced on every occasion, their contempt of human ^earning, their detestation of polite amusements, were indeed fair game for the laughers. But it is... | |
| Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1840 - 644 pages
...themselves; and the public would not take them under its protection. They were therefore abandoned, without reserve to the tender mercies of the satirists and...dress, their sour aspect, their nasal twang, their still postures, their long graces, their Hebrew names, the scriptural phrases which they introduced... | |
| John Stoughton - Windsor (Berkshire, England) History - 1844 - 266 pages
...there was a halo of sublimity encircling their enthusiasm, such as rarely gilds the path of mortals. " The ostentatious simplicity of their dress, their...graces, their Hebrew names, the scriptural phrases they introduced on every occasion, their contempt of human learning, their detestation of polite amusements,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...themselves and the public would not take them under its protection. They were therefore abandoned without reserve, to the tender mercies of the satirists and dramatists. The ostentatious sim plicity of their dress, their sour aspect, theii nasal twang, their stití'posture, their long... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...themselves ; and the public would not take them under its protection. They were therefore abandoned, without reserve, to the tender mercies of the satirists and...laughers alone that the philosophy of history is to be learnt. And he who approaches this subject should carefully guard against the influence of that potent... | |
| Eliot Warburton - Great Britain - 1849 - 580 pages
...sense. " The ostentatious simplicity of their dress," said the ablest of their defenders, long ago, " their sour aspect, their nasal twang, their stiff...their contempt of human learning, their detestation of public amusements, were indeed fair game for the laughers."2 I shall conclude this long digression... | |
| Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1849 - 588 pages
...sense. " The ostentatious simplicity of their dress," said the ablest of their defenders, long ago, " their sour aspect, their nasal twang, their stiff...their contempt of human learning, their detestation of public amusements, were indeed fair game for the laughers."2 I shall conclude this long digression... | |
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