 To make the past present, to bring the distant near, to place us in the society of a great man, or on the eminence which overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to...  Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay - Page 199by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1875 - 882 pages
...overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities in an allegory, to coll up our ancestors before us with all tlicir peculiarities of language, manners, and garb, to show... | |
 | Lockwood Lyon Doty - Livingston County (N.Y.) - 1876 - 772 pages
...own garb, to speak and act for themselves, and to use their own phraseology ; they must be permitted "to show us over their houses, to seat us at their tables, to rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, and to explain the uses of their primitive furniture." For the reader wants the homely truth. A county... | |
 | Thomas Whitcombe Greene - English language - 1876 - 340 pages
...eminence which overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to call up our ancestors before K 130 . GAD. us, with all their peculiarities of language, manners, and garb, to show us over their houses, to treat us at their tables, to rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1877 - 898 pages
...overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...their old-fashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of then- ponderous furniture, these parts of the duty which properly belongs to the historian have been... | |
 | Manuals - 1879 - 68 pages
...overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...manners, and garb, to show us over their houses, to meet us at their tables, to rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous... | |
 | Teacher - Teaching - 1879 - 580 pages
...overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...manners, and garb, to show us over their houses, to meet us at their tables, to rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1880 - 1318 pages
...portions in severally, instead of holding the whole in common. '' To make the past present,'' he savs, "to bring the distant near, to place us in the society...peculiarities of language, manners, and garb, to show us,.over their houses, to aeat us' at their ta,ble.s, to rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, to... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we Ihe historian have been appropriated by the historical novelist. On the other hand, to extract the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1880 - 844 pages
...consider as personified qualities in nn allegory, to call up our ancestors before us with all thiir peculiarities of language, manners, and garb, to show...over their houses, to se.at us at their tables, to rum in a ire Iheir old-fashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture, these... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1880 - 844 pages
...overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...in an allegory, to call up our ancestors before us witli all their peculiarities of language, manners, and garb, to show us over their houses, to seat... | |
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