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| Baptists - 1868 - 490 pages
...vigor when some traveller from Xew Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his station on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Pauls." We turn from this digression to consider the forces symbolized by John which are to bind the... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1865 - 456 pages
...have been dead and buried more than a century ago. Now, it " may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...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... | |
| Hugh Kenner - Biography & Autobiography - 1987 - 404 pages
...list of some 600 misprints 1 " And she (the Catholic Church) 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." Joyce has given " Nuzuland " the backward colonial connotations of Zululand, and, presumably in recognition... | |
| David Allan Hamer - History - 1990 - 404 pages
...1887), pp. 217-18. 43. In his Essay on Ranke's History of the Popes, TB Macaulay prophesied a time "when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." 44. BI Coleman, ed., The Idea of the City in Nineteenth-Century Britain (London and Boston: Routledge... | |
| David Spadafora, James Spada - Social Science - 1990 - 488 pages
...of the capitals of her stately cathedrals, " or where a traveler from the then-advanced society of New Zealand "shall, in the midst of a vast solitude,...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's." In his own form of the old concept of translatio imperii, Macaulay understood, without gloom or regret,... | |
| Dario Castiglione, Lesley Sharpe - History - 1995 - 266 pages
...would echo this poem in a famous passage in which he comfortably imagines a time in remote futurity when 'some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's'.52 By then the war with Napoleon was a heroic memory and the vision of time's decay, taken... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...6824 Essays ... 'Von Rank,' She (the Roman Catholic Churchl may still exist in undiminished vigour in his secret soul, was ever sorry 6825 Essays ... 'Von Ranke' She [the Church of Rome! thoroughly understands what no other church has... | |
| Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 456 pages
...Schlesinger (New York, 1953), 520. 2. The Roman Catholic Church "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." Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Von Ranke," Critical and Historical Essays, ed. AJ Grieve (London, 1930—31),... | |
| William Frank Buckley - Journalists - 1998 - 340 pages
...to the papacy. He said of the Church, "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." Ultimately, Newman concluded, one needs to judge the question whether a doctrine has been developed... | |
| Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - Philosophy - 1999 - 1020 pages
...she is not destined to see the end of them all .... And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's" (401). Kap. 331, Anm. 1. Auf eine noch frühere Prophezeiung, allerdings von drei Weltmächten, wies... | |
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