 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 páginas
...when speaking of the Roman Catholic Church he wrote, " 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." This image has been disentombed from one of the letters of Horace Walpole. The famous proverbial saying,... | |
 | George Harley Kirk - 1863 - 240 páginas
...quoted that it is known to almost every one : — " 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". Whether the idea of this celebrated quotation is original or borrowed, I think may be safely explained... | |
 | 1863 - 972 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1865 - 476 páginas
...Society of Jesus, Roman-Catholicism would have been dead and buried more than a century ago. Now, it " may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...Societg, New York, December 22, 1843. THOMAS B. MACAULAY. 1800-1859. She (the Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigor, when some traveller...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 páginas
...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...of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. We often hear it said that the world is constantly becoming more and more enlightened, and that this... | |
 | Thomas Hornblower Gill - 1866 - 536 páginas
...famous compliment to the stability of the Roman Church : ' 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.' Such a disposition of events is exceedingly unlikely. It is to be expected that a system like Romanism... | |
 | 1866 - 992 páginas
...famous compliment to the stability of the Roman Church, — '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.' " Such a disposition of events is exceedingly unlikely. It is to be expected that a system like Romanism,... | |
 | William Anderson (D.D.) - 1866 - 354 páginas
....^en idols were still worshipped in the temple at Mecca. 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." Is it really so ? Are all the struggles of the ages fruitless? No; [in this quotation Macaulay is as... | |
 | 1866 - 618 páginas
...(Longman.) As there can be littledoubt that until that much talked of, but we trust far distant day — " when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the...of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's" — the w'tings of Lord Macaulay will hold a foremost place in tht, literature of this countrv, it... | |
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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. 
