The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 8Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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... present express any opinion as to the details of the bill ; but , having during the last twenty - four hours given the most diligent consideration to its general principles , I have no hesitation in pronouncing it a wise , noble , and ...
... present express any opinion as to the details of the bill ; but , having during the last twenty - four hours given the most diligent consideration to its general principles , I have no hesitation in pronouncing it a wise , noble , and ...
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... present day would have been a town of some importance in the time of our early Parliaments . Aldborough may be absolutely as considerable a place as ever . But com- pared with the kingdom , it is much less considerable , by the noble ...
... present day would have been a town of some importance in the time of our early Parliaments . Aldborough may be absolutely as considerable a place as ever . But com- pared with the kingdom , it is much less considerable , by the noble ...
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... present House of Commons will find their way into the re- formed House : but that is not the question . No particular man is necessary to the State . We may depend on it that , if we provide the country with popular institutions , those ...
... present House of Commons will find their way into the re- formed House : but that is not the question . No particular man is necessary to the State . We may depend on it that , if we provide the country with popular institutions , those ...
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... present Ministers to that of those odious tools of power , who , towards the close of the reign of Charles the Second , seized the charters of the Whig Corporations . Now , there was another precedent , which I wouder that he did not ...
... present Ministers to that of those odious tools of power , who , towards the close of the reign of Charles the Second , seized the charters of the Whig Corporations . Now , there was another precedent , which I wouder that he did not ...
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... present . As my noble friend the Paymaster - General said , they have committed an error resembling that of the Scotch army at Dunbar . They have left the high ground from which we might have had some difficulty in dislodging them ...
... present . As my noble friend the Paymaster - General said , they have committed an error resembling that of the Scotch army at Dunbar . They have left the high ground from which we might have had some difficulty in dislodging them ...
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