 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - Страниц: 782
...thousand counters, at ten thousand firesides. The upper current of society presents 110 certain criterion each attended by its appurtenance of proscriptions, and persecutions, and favourites. But we must remember how small a proportion the good or evil effected by a single statesman... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - Страниц: 764
...thousand counters, at ten thousand firesides. The upper current of society presents no certain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the...fall of wise ministers, and of the rise of profligate favourites. But we must remember how small a proportion the good or evil effected by a single statesman... | |
 | 1852 - Страниц: 780
...thousand counters, at ten thousand nresides. The upper current of society presents no certain criterion putrefying. On a very cold day, early in the spring...alighted from his coach near Highgate, in order to try th maybe miserable amidst victories, and prosperous amidst defeats. We read of the fall of wise ministers,... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 560
...thousand counters, at ten thousand firesides. The upper current of society presents no certain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the...fall of wise ministers, and of the rise of profligate favourites ; but we must remember how small a proportion the good or evil effected by a single statesman... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - Страниц: 770
...thousand counters, at ten thousand firesides. The upper current of society presents no certain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the...defeats. We read of the fall of wise ministers, and of ilie rise of profligate favourites. But »e must remember how small a proportion the good or evil effected... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - Страниц: 780
...thousand counters, at ten thousand firesides. The upper current of society presents no certain criterion homas Babington Macaulay Macaulay favourites. But we must remember how small a proportion the good or evil effected by a single statesman... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - Страниц: 768
...thousand counters, at ten thousand firesides. The upper current of society presents no certain criterion e in o£ the fall of wise ministers, and of the rise of profligate favourites. But we must remember how... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - Страниц: 450
...thousand counters, at ten thousand firesides. The upper current of society presents no certain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the...fall of wise ministers and of the rise of profligate favourites. But we must remember how small a proportion the good or evil effected by a single statesman... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - Страниц: 1102
...thousand counters, at ten thousand firesides. The upper current of society presents no certain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the...fall of wise ministers and of the rise of profligate favourites. But we must remember how small a proportion the good or evil effected by a single statesman... | |
 | 1865 - Страниц: 496
...thousand counters, at ten thousand firesides. The upper current of society presents no certain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the...may be miserable amidst victories, and prosperous * Macanlay's "Miscellaneous Essays," vol i., on History, p. 275. amidst defeats. We read of the fall... | |
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They are not achieved by armies, or enacted by senates. They are sanctioned by no treaties, and recorded in no archives. They are carried on in every school, in every church, behind ten thousand counters, at ten thousand firesides. The upper current of... 
