The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 8Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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... able shorthand writers have sometimes complained that they could not follow me , and have contented themselves with setting down the substance of what I said . As I am unable to recall the precise words which I used , I have done my ...
... able shorthand writers have sometimes complained that they could not follow me , and have contented themselves with setting down the substance of what I said . As I am unable to recall the precise words which I used , I have done my ...
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... able men among those who would come into the House by virtue of this law . If the hundred persons whose names stand first in the Alphabetical List of the Court Guide were made Members of Parliament , there would probably be able men ...
... able men among those who would come into the House by virtue of this law . If the hundred persons whose names stand first in the Alphabetical List of the Court Guide were made Members of Parliament , there would probably be able men ...
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... able te defend them- selves . I will only say that , in my opinion , the country will not think worse either of their capacity or of their patriotism , because they have shown that they can profit by experience , because they have ...
... able te defend them- selves . I will only say that , in my opinion , the country will not think worse either of their capacity or of their patriotism , because they have shown that they can profit by experience , because they have ...
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... by its own ungovern- able passions . Save the aristocracy , endangered by its own unpopular power . Save the greatest , and fairest , and most highly civilised community that ever existed , from calamities . 24 PARLIAMENTARY REFORM .
... by its own ungovern- able passions . Save the aristocracy , endangered by its own unpopular power . Save the greatest , and fairest , and most highly civilised community that ever existed , from calamities . 24 PARLIAMENTARY REFORM .
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... able Baronet , the Member for Tamworth , told us so . the literary organs of the Opposition , from the Quarterly Review down to the Morning Post , told us so . All the Members of the Opposition with whom we conversed in All private told ...
... able Baronet , the Member for Tamworth , told us so . the literary organs of the Opposition , from the Quarterly Review down to the Morning Post , told us so . All the Members of the Opposition with whom we conversed in All private told ...
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