The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1866 |
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... never see anything but those squalid cabins and uncleared woods amidst which he was born . In times when life and when female honour were exposed to daily risk from tyrants and marauders , it was better that the precinct of a shrine ...
... never see anything but those squalid cabins and uncleared woods amidst which he was born . In times when life and when female honour were exposed to daily risk from tyrants and marauders , it was better that the precinct of a shrine ...
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... never was the resemblance more perfect than during that evil time when she alone rode , amidst darkness and tempest , on the deluge beneath which all the great works of ancient power and wis- dom lay entombed , bearing within her that ...
... never was the resemblance more perfect than during that evil time when she alone rode , amidst darkness and tempest , on the deluge beneath which all the great works of ancient power and wis- dom lay entombed , bearing within her that ...
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... never before possessed . They found it a barbarous jargon ; they fixed it in writing ; and they employed it in legislation , in poetry , and in romance . They renounced that brutal intemperance to which all the other branches of the ...
... never before possessed . They found it a barbarous jargon ; they fixed it in writing ; and they employed it in legislation , in poetry , and in romance . They renounced that brutal intemperance to which all the other branches of the ...
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... under their government , it is probable that England would never have had an independent existence . Her princes , her lords , her prelates , would have CHAP . I. CHAP . I. Separation of England and Nor- mandy . BEFORE THE RESTORATION . 11.
... under their government , it is probable that England would never have had an independent existence . Her princes , her lords , her prelates , would have CHAP . I. CHAP . I. Separation of England and Nor- mandy . BEFORE THE RESTORATION . 11.
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... never was a moment at which the chief part of what existed was not old . A polity thus formed must abound in anomalies . But for the evils arising from mere anomalies we have ample compensation . Other societies possess written ...
... never was a moment at which the chief part of what existed was not old . A polity thus formed must abound in anomalies . But for the evils arising from mere anomalies we have ample compensation . Other societies possess written ...
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