 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854 - 452 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 - 1854 - 424 sivua
...presentiment of approaching events, which gave so much authority to the counsel of Shaftesbury, that " it was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God." In this school Thucydides studied; and his wisdom is that which such a school would naturally afford.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 348 sivua
...prosperity which, while every thing 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 been conspicuous... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 348 sivua
...prosperity which, while every thing 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 been conspicuous... | |
 | John Harris - 1858 - 412 sivua
...the substitution of some human oracle in their stead. Of a certain Old Testament character we read, that " his counsel was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God/' The noisy responses of these fallible oracles drown the voice, and disparage the authority, of the... | |
 | 1860 - 1028 sivua
...was constantly changing, remained unchangeable, attributed to him a prescience almost miraculous, nnd likened him to the Hebrew statesman of whom it is...was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God." This, though found in a great historical romance, certainly is the general estimate of Shaftesbury,... | |
 | 1860 - 730 sivua
...prosperity which, while everything else was constantly changing, remained unchangeable, attributed to him a prescience almost miraculous, and likened him to...statesman of whom it is written that his counsel was a» if a man had inquired of the oracle of God." This, though found in a great historical romance,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 426 sivua
...presentiment of approaching events which gave so much authority to the counsel of Shaftesbury that " it was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God." In this school Thucydides studied; and his wisdom is that which such a school would naturally afford.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 sivua
...presentiment of approaching events which gave so much authority to the counsel of Shaftesbury that " it was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God." In this school Timcydides studied ; and his wisdom is that which such a school would naturally afford.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 424 sivua
...presentiment of approaching events which gave so much authority to the counsel of Shaftesbury that " it was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God." In this school Thucydides studied; and his wisdom is that which such a school would naturally afford.... | |
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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 
