Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay, Volume 1Harper & Bros., 1880 |
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Page 17
... common observers reason from the prog- ress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating and combining ...
... common observers reason from the prog- ress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improvement of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating and combining ...
Page 34
... common with human nature to be in- telligible to human beings . Their characters are , like their forms , marked by a certain dim resemblance to those of men , but exaggerated to gigantic dimensions , and veiled in myste- rious gloom ...
... common with human nature to be in- telligible to human beings . Their characters are , like their forms , marked by a certain dim resemblance to those of men , but exaggerated to gigantic dimensions , and veiled in myste- rious gloom ...
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... common with those modern beggars for fame who extort a pittance from the compassion of the inexperienced by exposing the naked- ness and sores of their minds . Yet it would be difficult to name two writers whose works have been more ...
... common with those modern beggars for fame who extort a pittance from the compassion of the inexperienced by exposing the naked- ness and sores of their minds . Yet it would be difficult to name two writers whose works have been more ...
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... common to them with all their fellow- citizens . Those who drove James from his throne , who se- duced his army , who alienated his friends , who first impris- oned him in his palace , and then turned him out of it , who broke in upon ...
... common to them with all their fellow- citizens . Those who drove James from his throne , who se- duced his army , who alienated his friends , who first impris- oned him in his palace , and then turned him out of it , who broke in upon ...
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... first honest , though we believe that he was driven from the noble course which he had marked out for himself by the almost irresistible force of circumstances , though we admire , in common with all men of all parties MILTON . 51.
... first honest , though we believe that he was driven from the noble course which he had marked out for himself by the almost irresistible force of circumstances , though we admire , in common with all men of all parties MILTON . 51.
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