 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 526 sivua
...had ever pretended to be. But on him they were lost. The counsel of Ahithophel, that counsel which was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God, was turned into foolishness. He who had become a by-word, for the certainty with which he foresaw and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1905 - 166 sivua
...had ever pretended to be. But on him they were lost. The counsel of Ahithophel, that counsel which was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God, was turned into foolishness. He who had become a by-word, for the certainty with which he foresaw and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1910 - 446 sivua
...prosperity which, while everything else was constantly changing, remained unchangeable, attributed to him a prescience almost miraculous, and likened him to...coarse both in mirth and anger, was perhaps, under the outward show of boisterous frankness, the most dishonest man in the whole Cabal. He had made himself... | |
 | 1911 - 906 sivua
...law that his brethren were wont to compare him to Achitophel of old, whose counsel (says Holy Writ), was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God. The first question [says the Lord Justice in the course of his opinion] we shall consider is, what... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 618 sivua
...prosperity which, while everything else was constantly changing, remained unchangeable, attributed to him a prescience almost miraculous, and likened him to...coarse both in mirth and anger, was perhaps, under the outward show of boisterous frankness, the most dishonest man in the whole Cabal. He had made himself... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 600 sivua
...prosperity which, while everything else was constantly changing, remained unchangeable, attributed to him a prescience almost miraculous, and likened him to...coarse both in mirth and anger, was perhaps, under the outward show of boisterous frankness, the most dishonest man in the whole Cabal. He had made himself... | |
 | John Morley - 1913 - 338 sivua
...cloud burst and the doom was fulfilled, men turned to Burke, as they went of old to Ahithophel, whose counsel was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God. It is not to our purpose to discuss all the propositions advanced in the Reflections, much less to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 sivua
...he had ever pretended to be. But on him they were lost. The counsel of Achitophel,that counsel which was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God, was turned into foolishness. He who had become a by-word, for the certainty with which he foresaw and... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 234 sivua
...cloud burst and the doom was fulfilled, men turned to Burke, as they went of old to Ahithophel, whose counsel was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God. It is not to our purpose to discuss all the propositions advanced in the Reflections, much less to... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 238 sivua
...cloud burst and the doom was fulfilled, men turned to Burke, as they went of old to Ahithophel, whose counsel was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God. It is not to our purpose to discuss all the propositions advanced in the Reflections, much less to... | |
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a prescience almost miraculous, and likened him to the Hebrew statesman of whom it is written that his counsel was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God. Lauderdale, loud and coarse, both in mirth and anger, was perhaps, under the 
