 | Louis Lubovius - 1898 - 208 sivua
...even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture,7 repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. 1. Trace = describe. 2. Ornamental, zierlich. 3. Sect, die Sekte. 4. Changes, here, Wandlungen. 5.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 590 sivua
...even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...of history, if I can succeed in placing before the Knglish of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. The events which I... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1899 - 276 sivua
...even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. / shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if 1 The next paragraph begins with another topic sentence : — "As the poet of nature he (Shelley) had... | |
 | James Mollison Milne - 1900 - 400 sivua
...Stedman. Name the infinitives, gerunds, participles, and abstract nouns in the following : — 1. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. — Macaulay. 2. And the miser bees are busy hoarding golden honey. — Aldrich. 4. But winter lingering... | |
 | David Hutchison MacGregor - 1901 - 152 sivua
...the operation of law, of religion, and of education, and to mark the progress of the human mind." " I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...Century a true picture of the life of their ancestors." In the philosophical method there was no scope for this fulness of detail. " They think it beneath... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - 1902 - 546 sivua
...neglect its revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...century a true picture of the life of their ancestors." And well does he carry out his intention. There is no more thoroughly interesting history in English.... | |
 | Cuyler Reynolds - 1902 - 504 sivua
...who has performed its duties with unblemished character. CICERO, Tusculanarum Disputationum. i, 45. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. MACAIJLAY, History of England. Vol. I, ch. i. It is a vice common to all, that in old age we are too... | |
 | 1903 - 1186 sivua
...ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other. On Frederic the Great. 1842. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.1 Hatory of England. Vol. i. Chap. i. There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 544 sivua
...even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. A magnificent scheme, truly ; but one which Macaulay must soon have been convinced could not be carried... | |
 | John Firman Coar - 1903 - 426 sivua
...As expressive of his aims in the novel, J&kkehard (1855), Scheffel could quote Macaulay's words, " I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...placing before the English of the nineteenth century a picture of the life of their ancestors." Nor was this return to sturdy local pride as the basis of... | |
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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,... 
