 | Harry Thurston Peck - Anthologies - 1901 - 446 pages
...of a better name, we will venture to christen Boswellisin. But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests,...we trust that we know how to prize ; and of these was Milton. The sight of his bocfks, the sound of his name, are pleasant to us. His thoughts resemble... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1902 - 364 pages
...the closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have proved 5 pure, which have been weighed in the balance and have...with the image and superscription of the Most High. 10 These great men we trust that we know how to prize; and of these was Milton. The sight of his books,... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1902 - 1046 pages
...be content rather to take our stand with Macaulay, and say : "There are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests,...have not been found wanting, which have been declared Stirling by the general consent of mankind, and which are visibly stamped with the image and superscription... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 666 pages
...which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace jind have proved pure, which have been weighed in the balance...we trust that we know how to prize ; and' of these was Milton, The sight of his books^ the sound of his name, are pleasant to us. His thoughts resemble... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 174 pages
...tests, which have been tried in the furnace and proved pure, which have been weighed in the balance 20 and have not been found wanting, which have been declared...we trust that we know how to prize ; and of these was Milton. The 25 sight of his books, the sound of his name, are pleasant to us. His thoughts resemble... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 310 pages
...severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have proved pure, which have been weighed 25 in the balance and have not been found wanting, which...High. These great men we trust that we know how to 30 prize; and of these was Milton. The sight of his books, the sound of his name, are pleasant to us.... | |
 | Lewis Henry Jones - Readers - 1904 - 328 pages
...Liberty. . . . 801 302 we will venture to christen Boswellism. But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests,...balance and have not been found wanting, which have 5 been declared sterling by the general consent of mankind, and which are visibly stamped with the... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1904 - 378 pages
...closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have proved pure, which have been declared sterling by the general consent...with the image and superscription of the Most High. Of these was Milton.' To descend a little to particulars. Milton's temper was especially admirable.... | |
 | Daniel Harvey Hill - Readers - 1906 - 426 pages
...closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have proved pure, which have been declared sterling by the general consent...the image and superscription of the Most High. These 5 great men we trust we know how to prize ; and of these was Milton. — MACAULAY. Messenger. Occasions... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - Bible - 1907 - 612 pages
...which have been tried in the furnace and found pure, which have been weighed in the balance and not found wanting, which have been declared sterling by...men we trust that we know how to prize, and of these was Milton. ii. 10. Look at the generations of old, and see : who did ever put his trust in the Lord... | |
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But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have proved pure, which have been weighed in the balance and have not been found wanting, which have been declared sterling... 
