 ... will greatly modify this estimate. Unlettered as he was and unpolished, he was still in some most important points a gentleman. He was a member of a proud and powerful aristocracy, and was distinguished by many both of the good and of the bad qualities...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 101873Full view - About this book
 | 1849 - 700 pages
...member of a proud and powerful aristocracy, and was distinguished by many both of the good and of the bad qualities which belong to aristocrats. His family pride was beyond that of a Talbot or a Howard Thus the character of the English esquire of the seventeenth century was compounded of two elements... | |
 | 1849 - 600 pages
...says that the English country gentleman " knew the genealogies and coats of arms of all his neighbors, and could tell which of them had assumed supporters without any right, and which had the misfortune to be alderman." On which the better-informed critic exclaims : " There was not... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...member of a proud and powerful aristocracy, and was distinguished by many both of the good and of the bad qualities which belong to aristocrats. His family...right, and which of them were so unfortunate as to be great grandsons of aldermen. He was a magistrate, and, as such, administered gratuitously to those... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 480 pages
...member of a proud and powerful aristocracy, and was distinguished by many both of the good and of the bad qualities which belong to aristocrats. His family...right, and which of them were so unfortunate as to be great grandsons of aldermen. He was a magistrate, and, as such, administered gratuitously to those... | |
 | Churchill Babington - 1849 - 182 pages
...Alexander Ross' View of Religions ; and though fools make up the guts of all Macaulay's History of England. the genealogies and coats of arms of all his neighbours,...right, and which of them were so unfortunate as to be great grandsons of aldermen. Nor indeed was his soldiership justly a subject of derision. In every... | |
 | Churchill Babington - 1849 - 138 pages
...Alexander Ross' View of Religions ; and though fools make up the guts of all Macaulay's History of England. the genealogies and coats of arms of all his neighbours,...right, and which of them were so unfortunate as to be great grandsons of aldermen. Nor indeed was his soldiership justly a subject of derision. In every... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 pages
...member of a proud and powerful aristocracy, and was distinguished by many both of the good and of the bad qualities which belong to aristocrats. His family...knew the genealogies and coats of arms of all his neighbors, and could tell which of them had assumed supporters without any right, and which of them... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 560 pages
...proud and powerful aristocracy, and was distinguished by many both of the good and of the bad qualified which belong to aristocrats. His family pride was...knew the genealogies and coats of arms of all his neighbors, and could tell which of them had assumed supporters without any right, and which of them... | |
 | 1849 - 652 pages
...against the general want of education he sneeringly adds — ' He knew the genealogies and coats-of-arms of all his neighbours, and could tell which of them...had assumed supporters without any right, and which had the misfortune to be great-grandsons of aldermen." — i. 322. There was not one of these ' unlettered... | |
 | 1849 - 292 pages
...and was distinguished by many both of the good and of the bad qualities whieh belong to aristoerats. His family pride was beyond that of a Talbot or a Howard. He knew the genealogies and eoats-ofarms of all his neighbours, and eould tell whieh of them had assumed supporters without any... | |
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