 Nothing in the early existence of Britain indicated the greatness which she was destined to attain. Her inhabitants, when first they became known to the Tyrian mariners, were little superior to the natives of the Sandwich Islands.  The Anthropological Review - Page 132by Anthropological Society of London - 1867Full view - About this book
 | 1849 - 608 pages
...ex- ample of that kind of pompous commonplace that looks like something and is nothing : " Nothing in the early existence of Britain indicated the greatness which she was destined to attain."— i. 4. This is in an exordium that would have fitted the history of any nation whatever. It might indeed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 480 pages
...that contest which the administration of King James the Second brought to a decisive crisis.* Nothing in the early existence of Britain indicated the greatness...little superior to the natives of the Sandwich Islands. She was subjugated by the Roman arms, but she received only a faint tincture of Itoman arts and letters.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...that contest which the administration of King James the Second brought to a decisive crisis.* Nothing in the early existence of Britain indicated the greatness...little superior to the natives of the Sandwich Islands. She was subjugated by the Roman arms, but she received only a faint tincture of Roman arts and letters.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 884 pages
...them. In the subsequent chapters I shall carefully indicate the sources of my information. CHAP. wnen first they became known to the Tyrian mariners, were...little superior to the natives of the Sandwich Islands. She was subjugated by the Roman arms ; but she received only a faint tincture of Roman arts and letters.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1849 - 608 pages
...an example of that kind of pompous commonplace that looks like something and is nothing : " Nothing in the early existence of Britain indicated the greatness which she was destined to attain."—!. 4. This is in an exordium that would have fitted the history of any nation whatever. It might indeed... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...continental kingdoms into which the Roman empire was then dissolved, the conquerors learned Nothing in the early existence of Britain indicated the greatness...Her inhabitants, when first they became known to the Tynan mariners, were little superior to the natives of the Sandwich Islands. She was subjugated by... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1855 - 556 pages
...existence of.Britain indicated the greatness which she was destined to attain. Her inhabitants, wfien ' first they became known to the Tyrian mariners, were...little superior to the natives of the Sandwich Islands. She was subjugated by the Roman arms ; but she received only af tint tincture of Roman arts and. letters.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1858 - 480 pages
...existence of Britain, indicated Britain under the greatness which she was destined to «,e Ron™,, attain. Her inhabitants, when first they became known...little superior to the natives of the Sandwich Islands. She was subjugated by the Eoman arms ; but she received only a faint tincture of Eoman arts and letters.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1858 - 798 pages
...silver was at this time as 4 to 1. Lord Macaulay describes the primitive state of Britain by saying that "her inhabitants, when first they became known to...superior to the natives of the Sandwich Islands." (Hist, of England, vol. ip 4.) Beyond the fact that the Homeric Greeks were acquainted with tin, with... | |
 | Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...national personality becomes complete. Dr. Arnold. STRUGGLES FOR THE POSSESSION OF ENGLAND. NOTHING in the early existence of Britain indicated the greatness...when first they became known to the Tyrian mariners, wi_-n1 little superior to the natives of the Sandwich Islands. She was subjugated by the Roman arms,... | |
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