 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 3091876Full view - About this book
 | 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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Missions - 1867 - 396 pages
...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,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1868 - 978 pages
...temple of Mecca. 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...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,... | |
 | Henry Allon - Christianity - 1849 - 604 pages
...shipped in Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished ' vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst ' of a vast solitude, take his...London' bridge, to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's !' Before we quit this subject, let us briefly recapitulate that Catholicism, in no way superior to... | |
 | Albert Barnes - History - 1868 - 464 pages
...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...London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's."* * Review of Banke'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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...Roman Catholic Church) may still exist in undiminished vigour, when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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