The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1866 |
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... century a true picture of the life of their ancestors . The events which I propose to relate form only a single act of a great and eventful drama extending through ages , and must be very imperfectly understood unless the plot of the ...
... century a true picture of the life of their ancestors . The events which I propose to relate form only a single act of a great and eventful drama extending through ages , and must be very imperfectly understood unless the plot of the ...
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... century , and long after- wards , among her chief merits . That the sacerdotal order should encroach on the functions of the civil magistrate would , in our time , be a great evil . But that which in an age of good government is an evil ...
... century , and long after- wards , among her chief merits . That the sacerdotal order should encroach on the functions of the civil magistrate would , in our time , be a great evil . But that which in an age of good government is an evil ...
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... century . Yet surely a system which , however deformed by superstition , introduced strong moral restraints into communities previously governed only by vigour of muscle and by audacity of spirit , a system which taught the fiercest and ...
... century . Yet surely a system which , however deformed by superstition , introduced strong moral restraints into communities previously governed only by vigour of muscle and by audacity of spirit , a system which taught the fiercest and ...
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... century , began the last great migration of the northern barbarians . During many years Denmark and Scandinavia continued to pour forth innumerable pirates , distinguished by strength , by valour , by merciless ferocity , and by hatred ...
... century , began the last great migration of the northern barbarians . During many years Denmark and Scandinavia continued to pour forth innumerable pirates , distinguished by strength , by valour , by merciless ferocity , and by hatred ...
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... century the amalgamation of the races was all but complete ; and it was soon made manifest , by signs not to be mistaken , that a people inferior to none ex- isting in the world had been formed by the mixture of three branches of the ...
... century the amalgamation of the races was all but complete ; and it was soon made manifest , by signs not to be mistaken , that a people inferior to none ex- isting in the world had been formed by the mixture of three branches of the ...
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