 | 1837 - 608 pages
...placed its seat 'nest the scat of God, And with ils darkness dared aiVront his light.' Words and mere words, and nothing but words, had been all the fruit...of all the toil, of all the most renowned sages of sixty generations. But the days of this sterile exuberance were numbered. Many causes predisposed the... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pages
...of the puet, placed its seat ' next the seat of Gud, And with its darknees dared affront his light1 Words, and more words, and nothing but words, had...of all the toil, of all the most renowned sages of sixty generations. But the days of this sterile exuberance were numbered. Many causes predisposed the... | |
 | 1838 - 822 pages
...placed ils seat ' neu the seat of God, And with its darkness dared affront Ыэ light.' Words, nnd more words, and nothing but words, had been all the fruit of all the toil, of all the mosl renowned sages of sixty generations. But the days of this slerile exuberance were numbered. Many... | |
 | Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams - China - 1839 - 674 pages
...hemisphere, remains here thick and portentous as ever. ' Words, mere words, and nothing but words, have been all the fruit of all the toil, of all the most renowned sages,' not of sixty generations only, but of time immemorial. The days of this ' steril fertility,' long ago... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 516 pages
...placed its seat ' next the seat of God, And with its darkness dared affront his light' Words and mere words, and nothing but words, had been all the fruit...of all the toil, of all the most renowned sages of sixty generations. But the days of this sterile exuberance were numbered. Many causes predisposed the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1843 - 520 pages
...of the poet, placed its seat " next the seat of God, And with its darkness dared affront his light." Words, and more words, and nothing but words, had...of all the toil of all the most renowned sages of sixty generations. But the days of this sterile exuberance were numbered. Many causes predisposed the... | |
 | 1849 - 736 pages
...modest assurance, (who can read such a passage without indignation and shame '?) that " words, and mere words, and nothing but words, had been all the fruit...of all the toil of all the most renowned sages of sixty generations."* Whatever may have been Bacon's faults, he had none of that mean ambition which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 338 pages
...of the poet, placed its seat "next the seat of God, And with its darkness dared affront bis light." Words, and more words, and nothing but words, had...of all the toil of all the most renowned sages of sixty generations. But the days of this sterile exuberance were numbered. Many causes predisposed the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1850 - 342 pages
...with its darkness dared affront his light." Words , and more words , and nothing but words , nad"be6n all the fruit of all the toil of all the most renowned sages of sixty generations. But the days of this sterile exuberance were numbered. Many causes predisposed the... | |
 | William Henry Ruffner - Apologetics - 1852 - 692 pages
...their philosophy." Nor will be censure the declaration of Macaulay as too strong, that " words and mere words, and nothing but words, had been all the fruit...of all the toil of all the most renowned sages of sixty generations." This sterile philosophy which, incorporated with Christianity, withered all its... | |
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Words, and more words, and nothing but words, had been all the fruit of all the toil of all the most renowned sages of sixty generations. 
