 ... the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilization without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check : imperfect indeed, and liable to gross abuse, but still sufficient to preserve society from the last extreme of misery....  Under Other Flags: Travels, Lectures, Speeches - Página 371por William Jennings Bryan - 1904 - 397 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 páginas
...was a feeble and inefficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from all restraint; and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilisation without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check: imperfect, indeed, and liable... | |
 | 1926 - 600 páginas
...abused by being permitted to extend the area of conflict, or to exhibit what Macaulay has described as 'the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilization without its mercy.' It is equally the duty of the British people to face the new situation in a progressive spirit, and... | |
 | 1850 - 814 páginas
...improved civil polity and of a purer form of religion. Then is seen what Mr. Macaulay has described as ' the most frightful of all spectacles — the strength of civilization without its mercy.' VOL. XXVII. L Shameless rapacity, unsparing extortion, the meanest perfidy, combined with the most... | |
 | Sir Edward Robert Sullivan - 1852 - 444 páginas
...usual accompaniments of an utterly lawless life; and they were instances of what Macaulay terms " that most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilization without its mercy." The atrocities related of some of them would be incredible, were they not attested by eye-witnesses.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 596 páginas
...was seen what we believe to )io the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilisation without its mercy. To all other despotism there is...but still sufficient to preserve society from the !;i.it extreme of misery. A time comes when the evils of submission are obviously greater than those... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 páginas
...feeble and inefficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from i all restraint ; and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilisation without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check, imperfect indeed, and liable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1078 páginas
...then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilisation without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check, imperfect indeed, and liable to gross tbuse, but still sufficient to preserve society from the last extreme of misery. A time comes when... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 páginas
...was a feeble and inefficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from all restraint; and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilisation without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check, imperfect indeed, and liable... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 páginas
...a feeble and inefficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from all restraint ; and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilisation without its mercy. To all other despotism there is a check, imperfect indeed, and liable... | |
 | 1867 - 894 páginas
...was a feeble and efficient ruler. The master caste, as was natural, broke loose from all restraint ; and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful of all spectacles, the strength of civilisation without its merry. To all other despotism there is a check ; imperfect, indeed, and liable... | |
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