 | English grammar - 1877 - 106 sivua
...Pronouns in the following sentences, and write opposite each the Antecedent to which it refers : — The events which I propose to relate form only a single act of a great and eventful drama. No man is tit to govern great societies who hesitates about disobliging the few who have access to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1878 - 592 sivua
...even the revolution* which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. 1 shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...the dignity of history, if I can succeed in placing licfore the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. The events... | |
 | Richard Morris, Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1878 - 120 sivua
...stay we thus, prolonging of their lives ? 58. Sitting as if they were a-telling riddles, &c. 59. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history, 60. Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. THE INFINITIVE. The infinitive,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1879 - 626 sivua
...even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history, if I can sjicceed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 476 sivua
...public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of 70 history, if I can succeed in placing before the English...century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. MR. ROBERT MONTGOMERY. (From the Essays.) The poem on the Omnipresence of the Deity commences with... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 474 sivua
...even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of 70 history, if I can succeed in placing before the English of the jiineteenth century a true picture... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1881 - 368 sivua
...even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public entertainments. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.— HIS RISE TO FAME. BAYNE'S " ESSAYS." Napoleon's sadden and dazzling rise to... | |
 | Edmund Yates, E. M. (Abdy-Williams) Whgishaw, Walter Sichel, Ernest Belfort Bax - 1881 - 752 sivua
...view the remote than the recent changes in the methods of our social existence. He planned to place before ' the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.' Apparently of the nineteenth century itself he did not purpose to write. The manners of the earlier... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1881 - 892 sivua
...2 Letter to Sir Horace Mann, 1774. 1 Ibid. Bolingbroke, On the Study of History, Letter v- (1735)I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. THOMAS GIBBONS. 1720-1785. That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives but nothing gives... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 sivua
...which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, mid public amusements. I »hall cheerfully beur the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history, if I ean succeed iu placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their... | |
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... progress" of useful and ornamental arts, to describe the rise of religious sects and the changes of literary taste, to portray the manners of successive generations, and not to pass by with neglect even the revolutions which have taken place in dress,... 
