The Works of Lord Macaulay: Complete, Volume 6Longmans, Green and Company, 1871 |
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... hundred thousand pounds a year , and not ten pages that are worth reading . The writings of Whithed , Cam- bridge , Coventry , and Lord Bath , are forgotten . Soame Jenyns is remembered chiefly by Johnson's review of the foolish Essay ...
... hundred thousand pounds a year , and not ten pages that are worth reading . The writings of Whithed , Cam- bridge , Coventry , and Lord Bath , are forgotten . Soame Jenyns is remembered chiefly by Johnson's review of the foolish Essay ...
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... hundred guineas to the member . Yet we know that , in our own time no man is thought wicked or dishonourable , no man is cut , no man is black - balled , because , under the old system of election , he was returned , in the only way in ...
... hundred guineas to the member . Yet we know that , in our own time no man is thought wicked or dishonourable , no man is cut , no man is black - balled , because , under the old system of election , he was returned , in the only way in ...
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... hundred years ago it would have been enough for a statesman to have the support of the Crown . It would now , we hope and believe , be enough for him to enjoy the confidence and approbation of the great body of the middle class . A hundred ...
... hundred years ago it would have been enough for a statesman to have the support of the Crown . It would now , we hope and believe , be enough for him to enjoy the confidence and approbation of the great body of the middle class . A hundred ...
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... hundred pounds of their stock were selling for eleven hundred pounds , when Threadneedle Street was daily crowded with the coaches of dukes and prelates , when divines and philosophers turned gamblers , when a thousand kindred bubbles ...
... hundred pounds of their stock were selling for eleven hundred pounds , when Threadneedle Street was daily crowded with the coaches of dukes and prelates , when divines and philosophers turned gamblers , when a thousand kindred bubbles ...
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... hundred persons who may be present while a speech is delivered may be pleased or disgusted by the voice and action of the orator ; but , in the reports which are read the next day by hundreds of thousands , the difference between the ...
... hundred persons who may be present while a speech is delivered may be pleased or disgusted by the voice and action of the orator ; but , in the reports which are read the next day by hundreds of thousands , the difference between the ...
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