 | 1842 - 654 pages
...that calm but indomitable force of will, which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions...ever, it was to Daylesford that he retired to die. When he was eight years old, his uncle, Howard, determined to take charge of him, and to give him a... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...that calm but indomitable force of will, which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions...ever, it was to Daylesford that he retired to die. When he was eight years old, his uncle, Howard, determined to take charge of him, and to give him a... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 354 pages
...that calm but indomitable force of will, which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions...Daylesford. And when his long public life, so singularly checkered with good and evil, with glory and obloquy, had at length closed for ever, it was at Daylesford... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1854 - 412 pages
...calm but indomitable spirit which distinguished his, as it does every other really great character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, his heart was still at Daylesf ord; and after innumerable vicissitudes of fortune, he returned there to... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1854 - 416 pages
...calm but indomitable spirit which distinguished his, as it does every other really great character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, his heart was still at Daylesf ord ; and after innumerable vicissitudes of fortune, he returned there to... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1859 - 368 pages
...back the old estate, and rebuilt the family mansion. " When, under a tropical sun," says Macaulay, " he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics, his hopes, amidst...ever, it was to Daylesford that he retired to die." Sir Charles Napier was another Indian leader of extraordinary courage and determination. As he once... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 pages
...millions of Asiatics ; " but," says Lord Macaulay, " when his long public life, so singularly checkered with good and evil, with glory and obloquy, had at length closed forever, it was to Daylsford he retired to die." Pages might be filled with the names of those statesmen... | |
 | 1859 - 620 pages
...millions of Asiatics ; " but," says Lord Macaulay, " when his long public life, so singularly checkered with good and evil, with glory and obloquy, had at length closed forever, it was to Daylsford he retired to die." Pages might be filled with the names of those statesmen... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...with that calm but mdomitable force of will which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions...evil, with glory and obloquy, had at length closed forever, it was to Daylesthat he retired to die. When he was eight years old, his uncle Howard determined... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 pages
...calm but indomitable force of will which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. AVhen, under a tropical sun, he ruled fifty millions of Asiatics,...evil, with glory and obloquy, had at length closed forever, it was to Daylesford that he retired to die. When he was eight years old, his uncle Howard... | |
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This purpose, formed in infancy and poverty, grew stronger as his intellect expanded and as his fortune rose. He pursued his plan with that calm but indomitable force of will which was the most striking peculiarity of his character. When, under a tropical... 
