 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.  Notes and Queries - Page 1651866Full view - About this book
 | National Conference of Unitarian and Other Christian Churches - 1866 - 888 pages
...the traveller from New Zealand when, in the midst of some vast wilderness, he takes his stand upon a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul, will fiud the Roman Catholic Church at work with the same energy as that which sent forth Augustine... | |
 | Robert Hall Baynes - 1873 - 720 pages
...idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." After tracing the great insurrections of the human intellect VOL. xm. G against her yoke previously... | |
 | Roses - Gift books - 1867 - 172 pages
...in undiminished vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand, in the midst of a vast solitude, takes his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's. Macaulay. The ceremonial of the world is not without its use : it may indeed take from warmth of friendship,... | |
 | Missions - 1867 - 396 pages
...worshiped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveler from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on some broken arch af London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." her manners ; reformed her morals,... | |
 | English fiction - 730 pages
...relegated to that far-distant day when Macaulay's traveller from New Zealand shall ' take his stand upon a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.' It seems, however, to the writer that the peril by which our supremacy as a manufacturing nation is... | |
 | Great Britain - 1868 - 978 pages
...idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Specimens such as these testify to the greatness of the writer. Although rich in rhetorical embellishment,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...THOMAS B. MACAULAY. 1800-1859. She (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.1 Rffiew of Rankf s History pf the Popts. /* , , ' .• ' ' The same image was employed by Macaulay... | |
 | Albert Barnes - History - 1868 - 468 pages
...worshiped in the Temple of Mecca 5 and she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveler from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude,...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's."* * Review of Rimke's History of the Popes. Miscellanies, vol. iii., p. 320, 321. This is splendid writing... | |
 | David Thomas - 1868 - 404 pages
...his love. Macaulay once imagined that in some far distant day a "traveller from New Zealand might, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." Such may happen. Neither London, nor St. Paul's, nor aught that is human on the earth is proof against... | |
 | 1868 - 496 pages
...guarantee it can give us to the contrary, the day may yet come when Macaulay"s NewZealander standing on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's, shall pass from a dream to a reality. The question then very naturally comes, — allowing that this... | |
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