 Vansittart, with fair intentions, 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 civilization without...  A History of Cambridgeshire - Page 20by John William Edward Conybeare - 1897 - 306 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1842 - 654 pages
...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...still sufficient to preserve society from the last extreme of misery. A time comes when the evils of submission are obviously greater than those of resistance... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 [essays]) - 1854 - 452 pages
...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...still sufficient to preserve society from the last extreme of misery. A time comes when the evils of submission are obviously greater than those of resistance,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 354 pages
...a feeble and inefficient ruler. The master caste, as was natu.ral, broke loose from all restraint, and then was seen what we believe to be the most frightful...still sufficient to preserve society from the last extreme of misery. A time comes when the evils of submission are obviously greater than those of resistance... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 588 pages
...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...still sufficient to preserve society from the last extreme of misery. A time comes when the evils of submission are obviously greater than those of resistance,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...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... | |
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