 ... on the operations of the human mind, have been the acknowledged leaders of the human race in the career of political improvement. The history of England is the history of this great change in the moral, intellectual, and physical state of the inhabitants...  Westward Empire: Or, The Great Drama of Human Progress - Pagina 342door Elias Lyman Magoon - 1856 - 445 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1835 - 572 pagina’s
...heavenly bodies, — have speculated with exquisite subtlety on the operations of the human mind, — have been the acknowledged leaders of the human race in...action. To us, we will own, nothing is so interesting end delightful as to contemplate the steps by which the England of Domesday Book, — the England of... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 pagina’s
...heavenly bodies, have speculated with exquisite subtlety on the operations of the human mind,— have been the acknowledged leaders of the human race in...is much amusing and instructive episodical matter ; hut this is the main action. To us, we will own, nothing is so interesting and delightful as to contemplate... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 512 pagina’s
...heavenly bodies, have speculated with exquisite subtilty on the operations of the human mind, have been the acknowledged leaders of the human race in...inhabitants of our own island. There is much amusing and instnictive episodical matter; but this is the main action. To us, we will own, nothing is so interesting... | |
 | 1860 - 600 pagina’s
...classic ground of liberty and philosophy, the school of all knowledge, the mart of all trade. . . . The history of England is the history of this great...physical state of the inhabitants of our own island." We never could understand how the author who could thus feel and thus write should have been so bitterly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 pagina’s
...with exquisite subtilty on the operations of the human mind, have been the acknowledged haders o*' the human race in the career of political improvement. The history of England is the history of tliis great change in the moral, intellectual, and physical state of the inhabitants of our own island.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 pagina’s
...classic ground of liberty and philosophy, the school of all knowledge, the mart of all trade. . . . The history of England is the history of this great...physical state of the inhabitants of our own island." We never could unstand how the author who could thus feel and thus write should have been so bitterly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 432 pagina’s
...heavenly bodies, have speculated with exquisite subtilty on the operations of the human mind, have been the acknowledged leaders of the human race in...inhabitants of our own island. There is much amusing and 322 323 instructive episodical matter; but this is the main action. To us, we will own, nothing is... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pagina’s
...heavenly bodies, have speculated with exquisite subtilty on the operations of the human mind, have been the acknowledged leaders of the human race in...in the moral, intellectual, and physical state of tne inhabitants of our own island. There is much amusing and instructive episodical matter ; but this... | |
 | Sigismondo Savona - 1870 - 48 pagina’s
...heavenly bodies ; have speculated 32 with exquisite subtlety on the operations of the human mind ; have been the acknowledged leaders of the human race in...physical state of the inhabitants of our own Island. " * It is this History and this Literature that I should wish to see Young Malta study and meditate.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 pagina’s
...speculated with exquisite subtilty on the operations of the human mind, have been the acknowledged leaden of the human race in the career of political improvement....of England is the history of this great change in cbc moral, intellectual, and physical state of the inhabitants of our own island. There is much amusing... | |
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