 | 1837 - 608 pages
...Novum Organum, that the comparison applies with peculiar felicity. There we see the great Law- giver looking round from his lonely elevation on an infinite...goodly land, a land of promise, a land flowing with milk and honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...appears in the first book of the Логит Orgonum, that the comparison applies with peculiar felicity. There we see the great law-giver looking round from...goodly land, a land of promise, a land flowing with milk and honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...appears in the first book of the Novum Organum, that the comparison applies with peculiar felicity. There we see the great Lawgiver looking round from...goodly land, a land of promise. a land flowing with milk and honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...appears in the first book of the Nowm (Jr^anum, that the comparison applies with peculiar felicity. lay milk and honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...that the comparison applies with peculiar felicity. There we see the great Lawgiver looking around from his •lonely elevation on an infinite expanse...goodly land, a land of promise, a land flowing with milk and honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 338 pages
...appears in the first book of the Novum Organum, that the comparison applies with peculiar felicity. There we see the great Lawgiver looking round from...reaping no harvest, and building no abiding city; before whom a goodly land, a land of promise, a land flowing with milk and honey. While the multitude below... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 342 pages
...appears in the first book of the Novum Organum, that the comparison applies with peculiar felicity. There we see the great Lawgiver looking round from...reaping no harvest, and building no abiding city; before whom a goodly land, a land of promise, a land flowing with milk and honey. While the multitude below... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...lonely elevation on an infinite expanse; behind him a wilderness of dreary sands and bir.er water* olved the inhabitants of Madras from the engagements...disguise of a Mussulman, and took refuge at Fori St. D milk and honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...expanse; behind him a wilderness of dreary sands and bitter waters in which successive generalions soon developed the great powers which he possessed. In our time, the audience milk and honey. While the multitude below saw only the ilat sterile desert in which they had so long... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...from his lonely elevation on an infinite expanse; behind him a wilderness of dreary sands and bit'.er waters in which successive generations have sojourned,...goodly land, a land of promise, a land flowing with milk and honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long... | |
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Bacon, we think, as he appears in the first book of the Novum Organum, that the comparison applies with peculiar felicity. There we see the great Lawgiver looking round from his lonely elevation on an infinite expanse ; behind him a wilderness of dreary... 
