 | Languages, Modern - 1884 - 964 pages
...liberty nicht passen.) — Sterile and obscure äs is that portion of our an n als, it is tbere that \ve must seek for the origin of our freedom, our prosperity, and our glory. (Macaulay.) — What is an Englishman? Is he to be trampled upon by every oppressor? Is he to be knocked... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - English language - 1861 - 224 pages
...history of our country during the thirteenth century may not inaptly he compared. Sterile and ohscure as is that portion of our annals, it is there that...origin of our freedom, our prosperity, and our glory." [And after tracing from this period the rise and progress of the constitution, the laws, and the navy,... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - Education, Elementary - 1863 - 272 pages
...mountain tracts, incorrectly laid down on maps, and rarely explored by travellers. To such a tract the history of our country during the thirteenth century...origin of our freedom, our prosperity, and our glory." [And after tracing from this period the rise and progress of the constitution, the laws, and the navy,... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 pages
...our country during the thirteenth century may not unaptly be compared.3 Sterile and obscure as is4 that portion of our annals, it is there that we must...freedom, our prosperity, and our glory. Then it was 5 that the great English people was formed, that the national character began to exhibit those peculiarities... | |
 | Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...travellers. To such a tract the history of our country during the thirteenth century may not unaptly be compared. Sterile and obscure as is that portion of our annals, it is there that we must seek 1'or the origin of our freedom, our prosperity, and our glory. Then it was that the great English people... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1866 - 668 pages
...of our country during the thirteenth century may not unaptly be compared. Sterile and obscure as .s that portion of our annals, it is there that we must seek "or the origin of our freedom, our prosperity, and our glory. rhen it was that the great English people... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1867 - 794 pages
...travellers. To such a tract the history of our country during the thirteenth century may not unaptly be compared. Sterile and obscure as is that portion...freedom, our prosperity, and our glory. Then it was ttat the great English people was formed, that the national character began to exhibit those peculiarities... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...together by a common interest. It is, as Macaulay 3 remarks, "in the annals of the thirteenth century that we must seek for the origin of our freedom, our prosperity, and our glory." (1) See specimens of the Third Stage in the text, pp. 19 — 24. (2) Some of the peculiarities were,... | |
 | George Perkins - Latin language - 1869 - 60 pages
...that she had no hope but in their errors and misfortunes. (For her substitute, of the English.) 8. Sterile and obscure as is that portion of our annals,...origin of our freedom, our prosperity, and our glory. 9. The struggle between the two fierce Teutonic breeds lasted during six generations. Each was alternately... | |
 | Gorham D. Abbott - Mexico - 1869 - 432 pages
...of the Pope. " From this," says Macauley, " commences the history of the English nation." " Here was the origin of our freedom, our prosperity, and our glory." " Then it was that the English people was formed, and the national character began to exhibit those peculiarities in politics,... | |
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Sterile and obscure as is that portion of our annals, it is there that we must seek for the origin of our freedom, our prosperity, and our glory. 
