 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 σελίδες
...— While the multitude below saw only the flat, sterile desert in which they had so long wandered, bounded on every side by a near horizon, or diversified...country, following with his eye the long course of fertilizing rivers, through ample pastures, and under the bridges of great capitals, measuring the... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 432 σελίδες
...a far higher stand on a far lovelier country, following with his eye the long course of fertilizing rivers, through ample pastures, and under the bridges...out all those wealthy regions from Dan to Beersheba. — Macaulay. If the preliminary parts of a sentence are many, the faculty of attention is taxed and... | |
 | Virginia Waddy - 1889 - 428 σελίδες
...lovelier country, following with his eye the long course of fertilizing rivers, through ample pastures^and under the bridges of great capitals, measuring the...out all those wealthy regions from Dan to Beersheba. — Macaulay. If the preliminary parts of a sentence are many, the faculty of attention is taxed and... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1890 - 568 σελίδες
...honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long wandered, bounded on every side by a near horizon, or diversified...country, following with his eye the long course of fertilizing rivers, through ample pastures, and under the bridges of great capitals, measuring the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1100 σελίδες
...honey. While the multitude btlow saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long wandered, s that he has really come up with the Whigs. The absolute position higher stand on a far lovelier country, following with his eye the long course of fertilizing rivers,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 934 σελίδες
...honey. While the multitude below saw only the fiat, sterile desert in which they had so long wandered, s, to form a tolerably correct notion of his character....of real patriotism and magnanimity—a man whose vi country—following with his eye the long course of fertilising rivers through ample pastures and under... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1893 - 530 σελίδες
...' While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in ' which they had so long wandered, bounded on every side by ' a near horizon, or diversified...great ' capitals, measuring the distances of marts and harbours, and ' portioning out all those wealthy regions from Dan to Beer"sheba." The imagery thus... | |
 | Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - 1894 - 466 σελίδες
...honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long wandered, bounded on every side by a near horizon, or diversified...great capitals, measuring the distances of marts and harbours, and portioning out all those wealthy regions from Dan to Beersheba." The imagery thus nobly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 934 σελίδες
...honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which they had so long wandered, turn back from contemplating Bacon's philosophy to contemplate his life. Yet without so turning back... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 726 σελίδες
...honey. While the multitude below saw only the flat sterile desert in which B2 they had so long wandered, bounded on every side by a near horizon, or diversified...wealthy regions from Dan to Beersheba. It is painful to turn back from contemplating Bacon's philosophy to contemplate his life. Yet without so turning back... | |
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... sojourned, always moving, yet never advancing, reaping no harvest and building no abiding city ; before him a 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... 
