Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay, Volume 3Harper & Bros., 1880 |
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... seemed hardly compatible with soundness of mind , had begun to cause great uneasiness to his family . " Fighting , " says one of his uncles , " to which he is out of measure addicted , gives his temper such a fierceness and im ...
... seemed hardly compatible with soundness of mind , had begun to cause great uneasiness to his family . " Fighting , " says one of his uncles , " to which he is out of measure addicted , gives his temper such a fierceness and im ...
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... seemed likely to destroy all his hopes in life suddenly opened before him a new path to eminence . Europe had been during some years distracted by the war of the Austrian succession . George the Second was the steady ally of Maria ...
... seemed likely to destroy all his hopes in life suddenly opened before him a new path to eminence . Europe had been during some years distracted by the war of the Austrian succession . George the Second was the steady ally of Maria ...
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... seemed improbable . But scarcely any man , how- ever sagacious , would have thought it possible that a trading company separated from India by fifteen thousand miles of sea , and possessing in India only a few acres for purposes of ...
... seemed improbable . But scarcely any man , how- ever sagacious , would have thought it possible that a trading company separated from India by fifteen thousand miles of sea , and possessing in India only a few acres for purposes of ...
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... seemed to have prevailed every- where . Nazir Jung perished by the hands of his own follow- ers ; Mirzapha Jung was master of the Deccan ; and the tri- umph of French arms and French policy was complete . At Pondicherry all was ...
... seemed to have prevailed every- where . Nazir Jung perished by the hands of his own follow- ers ; Mirzapha Jung was master of the Deccan ; and the tri- umph of French arms and French policy was complete . At Pondicherry all was ...
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... seemed impossible . The small force which was then at Madras had no commander . Major Lawrence had returned to Eng- land ; and not a single officer of established character remained in the settlement . The natives had learned to look ...
... seemed impossible . The small force which was then at Madras had no commander . Major Lawrence had returned to Eng- land ; and not a single officer of established character remained in the settlement . The natives had learned to look ...
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Page 250 - It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 251 - Wales, conspicuous by his fine person and noble bearing. The grey old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.
Page 38 - Nothing in history or fiction, not even the story which Ugolino told in the sea of everlasting ice, after he had wiped his bloody lips on the scalp of his murderer, approaches the horrors which were recounted by the few survivors of that night.
Page 251 - ... beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay'. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticised, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacock-hangings of Mrs.
Page 453 - Voltaire is well known. But of Addison it may be confidently affirmed that he has blackened no man's character, nay, that it would be difficult, if not impossible, to find in all the volumes which he has left us a single taunt which can be called ungenerous or unkind.
Page 149 - O'er my dim eye-balls glance the sudden tears ? How sweet were once thy prospects, fresh and fair, Thy sloping walks, and unpolluted air ! How sweet the glooms beneath...
Page 133 - What rugged ways attend the noon of life ! Our sun declines, and with what anxious strife, What pain, we tug that galling load— a wife.
Page 366 - Yet there was no want of low minds and bad hearts in the generation which witnessed her first appearance. There was the envious Kenrick and the savage Wolcot, the asp George Steevens, and the polecat John Williams. It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age. That truly chivalrous exploit was reserved for a bad writer of our own time, whose spite she had provoked by not furnishing him with...
Page 48 - No mob attacked by regular soldiers was ever more completely routed. The little band of Frenchmen, who alone ventured to confront the English, were swept down the stream of fugitives. In an hour the forces of Surajah Dowlah were dispersed, never to reassemble. Only five hundred of the vanquished were slain. But their camp, their guns, their baggage, innumerable wagons, innumerable cattle, remained in the power of the conquerors.
Page 131 - So spake the Cherub : and his grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible : Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw, and pined His loss ; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impair'd ; yet seem'd Undaunted. If I must contend...