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" Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history or fiction, whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities which are the proper objects... "
The New Monthly Belle Assemblée - Page 293
1870
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 79

1844 - 574 pages
...express the opinion to which this investigation lias led us. Our opinion then is this, that Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In ,him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 24

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1844 - 626 pages
...living coal. The following is an agreeable synopsis of the bloody terrorist's character : ' BARERE approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are the proper objects of haired, and the qualities...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 5

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844 - 446 pages
...to express the opinion to which this investigation has led us. Our opinion then is this, that Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 2

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 600 pages
...to express the opinion to which this investigation has led us. Our opinion then is this, that Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities...
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Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To ...

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846 - 222 pages
...to express the opinion to which this investigation has led us, Our opinion then is this, that Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities...
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The North American Review, Volume 83

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1856 - 588 pages
...cruel tyrants in any age or country. We cannot, indeed, say of him, as Macaulay has said of Barere, that he " approached nearer than any person mentioned...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity" ; but we may go on and say, that in him "the qualities which are the proper objects...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14

1864 - 816 pages
...not only death, but also persecution ; and Madame Lenormant attributes this rare good -fortune to the agency of the infamous Barrere. Barrere's cruelty...purchased of him their own lives and those of their friends, and it is certain that his friendship and protection were no honor to any woman. This view...
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Biographical essays

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1857 - 340 pages
...express the opinion to which this investigation has led us. Our opinion then is this , that Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil , to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities...
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Human Destiny: A Discussion : Do Reason and the Scriptures Teach the Utter ...

Charles Frederic Hudson - 1860 - 490 pages
...them what they were. Let those who have read say whether Macaulay is rash in his opinion " that Barere approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are proper objects of hatred, and the qualities which...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1088 pages
...express the opinion to which this investigation has led us. Our opinion then is this : that BarSre approached nearer than any person mentioned in history...whether man or devil, to the idea of consummate and universal depravity. In him the qualities which are the proper objects of hatred, and the qualities...
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