 With all his faults, — and they were neither few nor small, — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during...  Memories of a Red-letter Summer - Page 20by Eleanor Childs Meehan - 1903 - 291 pagesFull view - About this book
 | American periodicals - 1842 - 654 pages
...tranquil and decorous fortitude which he had opposed to all the trials of his various and eventful life. ' With all his faults — and they were neither few...generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has for ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 438 pages
...of his various and eventful life. With all his faults—and they were neither few nor small—only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. In...generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has for ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the... | |
 | Literature - 1852 - 638 pages
...the fierce vicissitudes of the strife of statesmen, we are dismissed with a majestic allusion to " that temple of silence and reconciliation, where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, the great Abbey, which has, during so many ages, aßiirded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...and oppressed in both sexes, in every age, rank, situation, and condition of life." WARREN HASTINGS. With all his faults — and they were neither few...generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has for ages afforded a quiet resting place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...the fierce vicissitudes of the strife of statesmen, we are dismissed with a majestic allusion to " that temple of silence and reconciliation, where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, the great Abbey, which has, during so many ages, afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1853 - 596 pages
...tranquil and decorous fortitude which he had opposed to all the trials of his various and eventful life. With all his faults, — and they were neither few...reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie O 3 buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1854 - 354 pages
...tranquil and decorous fortitude which Be had opposed to all the trials of his various and eventful life. With all his faults — and they were neither few...generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has for ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...tranquil and decorous fortitude which he had opposed to all the trials of his various and eventful life. With all his faults, — and they were neither few...generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered... | |
 | English literature - 1855 - 604 pages
...originally buried in the Tower, and that tho corps* was afterwards removed to St Mary's, Aldermanbury. " With all his faults, and they were neither few nor...enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the GREAT ABIIEY, which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1906 - 870 pages
...the earthly remains of him they had loved so well and so long. As Macaulay said of Warren Hastings : Only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains....generations lie buried ; in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered... | |
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