 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1878 - 592 sivua
...prosperity which, while every thing else was constantly changing, remained unchangeable, attributed to him a prescience almost miraculous, and likened him to...counsel was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of (Jod. Lauderdale, loud and coarse both in mirth and anger, was perhaus, under the outward show of boisterous... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1878 - 162 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 byword, for the certainty with which he foresaw and... | |
 | John Morley - 1879 - 236 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 - 1879 - 256 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. *"~p It is not to our purpose to discuss all the propositions advanced in the Reflections, much less... | |
 | English history - 1880 - 328 sivua
...prosperity which while everything else was constantly changing remained unchangeable, attributed to him a prescience almost miraculous, and likened him to the Hebrew statesman, of whom it was written that his counsel was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God." Else why should he,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 668 sivua
...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 byword for the certainty with which he foresaw, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 462 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 natur70 HISTORY.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 640 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.... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1881 - 104 sivua
...I remember Dean Alford once said to me of Archbishop Sumner—what was " counselled in those days, was as if a man had inquired of the oracle of God." Such was the person who appeared first on the list of chairmen, and I have no doubt he fulfilled his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 1136 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 been conspicuous... | |
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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 
