The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1866 |
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... objects of a mysterious horror , such as that with which the Ionians of the age of Homer had regarded the Straits of Scylla and the city of the Læstrygonian cannibals . There was one province of our island in which , as Procopius had ...
... objects of a mysterious horror , such as that with which the Ionians of the age of Homer had regarded the Straits of Scylla and the city of the Læstrygonian cannibals . There was one province of our island in which , as Procopius had ...
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... objects ; and she now occupies in the history of mankind a place far more glorious than if she had , as at one time seemed not improbable , ac- quired by the sword an ascendency similar to that which formerly belonged to the Roman ...
... objects ; and she now occupies in the history of mankind a place far more glorious than if she had , as at one time seemed not improbable , ac- quired by the sword an ascendency similar to that which formerly belonged to the Roman ...
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... object . Throughout Christendom , what- ever advance has been made in knowledge , in freedom , in wealth , and in the arts of life , has been made in spite of her , and has everywhere been in inverse proportion to her power . The ...
... object . Throughout Christendom , what- ever advance has been made in knowledge , in freedom , in wealth , and in the arts of life , has been made in spite of her , and has everywhere been in inverse proportion to her power . The ...
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... object of their animosity was not Rome , but England ; and they had especial reason to abhor those English sovereigns who had been the chiefs of the great schism , Henry the Eighth and Elizabeth . During the vain struggle which two ...
... object of their animosity was not Rome , but England ; and they had especial reason to abhor those English sovereigns who had been the chiefs of the great schism , Henry the Eighth and Elizabeth . During the vain struggle which two ...
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... object of derision . Even in his virtues and accomplishments there was something eminently unkingly . Throughout the whole course of his reign , all the venerable associations by which the throne had long been fenced were gradually ...
... object of derision . Even in his virtues and accomplishments there was something eminently unkingly . Throughout the whole course of his reign , all the venerable associations by which the throne had long been fenced were gradually ...
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