Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient RomeLongmans, Green, and Company, 1885 - 898 pages |
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... Prince itself . But the most decisive most depraved of men . Principles refutation is that which is furnished which the most hardened ruffian would by the other works of Machiavelli . In scarcely hint to his most trusted ac- all the ...
... Prince itself . But the most decisive most depraved of men . Principles refutation is that which is furnished which the most hardened ruffian would by the other works of Machiavelli . In scarcely hint to his most trusted ac- all the ...
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... Prince to a patron view of the duties and rights of citizens , as those of Machiavelli . Yet so it is . And even from The Prince itself we could select many passages in support of this remark . To a reader of our age and country this ...
... Prince to a patron view of the duties and rights of citizens , as those of Machiavelli . Yet so it is . And even from The Prince itself we could select many passages in support of this remark . To a reader of our age and country this ...
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... prince , and of But the extravagance of the satire in the favourite who governed the prince , some measure injures its effect . Ma- and of the lacquey who governed the chiavelli was unhappily married ; and favourite . He was to ...
... prince , and of But the extravagance of the satire in the favourite who governed the prince , some measure injures its effect . Ma- and of the lacquey who governed the chiavelli was unhappily married ; and favourite . He was to ...
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... Prince , and perhaps of France . In these missions , and in also from some indistinct traditions , several others of inferior importance , several writers have supposed a con- he acquitted himself with great dex- nection between those ...
... Prince , and perhaps of France . In these missions , and in also from some indistinct traditions , several others of inferior importance , several writers have supposed a con- he acquitted himself with great dex- nection between those ...
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... Prince concludes shows how strongly the writer felt upon this subject . The Prince traces the progress of an ambitious man , the Discourses the pro- gress of an ambitious people . The same principles on which , in the former work , the ...
... Prince concludes shows how strongly the writer felt upon this subject . The Prince traces the progress of an ambitious man , the Discourses the pro- gress of an ambitious people . The same principles on which , in the former work , the ...
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Page 24 - ... the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest; who had been destined, before heaven and earth were created, to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should have passed away. Events which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes had been ordained on his account.
Page 183 - suggested that luxury corrupts a people, and destroys the spirit of liberty. JOHNSON : Sir, that is all visionary. I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Sir, the danger of the abuse of power is nothing to a private man. What Frenchman is prevented passing his life as he pleases?" SIR ADAM: " But, sir, in the British constitution it is surely of importance to keep up a spirit in the people, so...
Page 139 - We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for + subtle + disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely + dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient. There is no book in our literature, on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language ;...
Page 639 - ... prays with his face to Mecca, the drums, a.nd banners, and gaudy idols, the devotee swinging in the air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all these things were to him as the objects amidst...
Page 23 - Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know him, to serve him, to enjoy him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul.
Page 354 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Page 121 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this : the People will assuredly do...
Page 134 - That work was one of the two or three works which he wished longer. It was by no common merit that the illiterate sectary extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the Pilgrim's Progress is the delight of the peasantry. In every nursery the Pilgrim's Progress is a greater favourite than Jack the Giant-killer.
Page 410 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 135 - Thence are plainly seen the golden pavements and streets of pearl, on the other side of that black and cold river over which there is no bridge. All the stages of the journey, all the forms which cross or overtake the pilgrims, giants, and hobgoblins, ill-favoured ones, and shining ones, the tall, comely, swarthy Madam Bubble, with her great purse by her side, and her fingers playing with the money, the black man in the bright vesture, Mr. Worldly Wiseman and my Lord Hategood, Mr. Talkative, and...