 | George Harley Kirk - 1863 - 240 pages
...— " And she may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a...London Bridge, to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's". Whether the idea of this celebrated quotation is original or borrowed, I think may be safely explained... | |
 | 1863 - 972 pages
...rational conviction ; and we must leave him where he has complacently seated himself (p. 266), — on a broken arch of London Bridge, to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's Cathedral. "L'Ouvrier's" article consists of statements which fact« do not justify. He is so conscious... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigor, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.* Reciew ofRanke's History of the Popes. * The same image was employed by Macaulay in 1824, in the concluding... | |
 | 1865 - 476 pages
...ago. Now, it " may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." So Lord Macaulay prophesied. And, should it happen so, it will be through the agency of that society... | |
 | 1866 - 650 pages
...many wounded, yea, many strong men have been slain by her." "We often hear it said," says Macaulay, " that the world is constantly becoming more and more...unfavourable to Catholicism. We wish that we could think so. ... A very common knowledge of history, and very little observation of life will suffice to prove that... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1866 - 518 pages
...still existing, ages hence, in undiminished vigour, " when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's."! Here we have the passage in its completest form and best apparel, point device,—a triumph of condensed,... | |
 | 1866 - 992 pages
...Church, — 'She may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.' " Such a disposition of events is exceedingly unlikely. It is to be expected that a system like Romanism,... | |
 | William Anderson (D.D.) - 1866 - 354 pages
...at Mecca. She may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Is it really so ? Are all the struggles of the ages fruitless? No; [in this quotation Macaulay is as... | |
 | Thomas Hornblower Gill - 1866 - 536 pages
...Church : ' She may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall in the midst of a vast solitude take his stand on a broken...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.' Such a disposition of events is exceedingly unlikely. It is to be expected that a system like Romanism... | |
 | 1866 - 522 pages
...vigour, " when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand ou a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's."t Here we have the passage in its completest form and best apparel, point device, — a triumph... | |
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And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. 
