The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 1Longmans, Green and Company, 1866 |
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... regarded the Straits of Scylla and the city of the Lęstrygonian cannibals . There was one province of our island in which , as Procopius had been told , the ground was covered with serpents , and the air was such that no man could ...
... regarded the Straits of Scylla and the city of the Lęstrygonian cannibals . There was one province of our island in which , as Procopius had been told , the ground was covered with serpents , and the air was such that no man could ...
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... regarded with an irrational awe , than that there should be no refuge inaccessible to cruelty and licen- tiousness . In times when statesmen were incapable of form- ing extensive political combinations , it was better that the Christian ...
... regarded with an irrational awe , than that there should be no refuge inaccessible to cruelty and licen- tiousness . In times when statesmen were incapable of form- ing extensive political combinations , it was better that the Christian ...
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... regarded as a marriage between a white planter and a quad- roon girl would now be regarded in Virginia . In history he is known by the honourable surname of Beauclerc ; but , in his own time , his own countrymen called him by a Saxon ...
... regarded as a marriage between a white planter and a quad- roon girl would now be regarded in Virginia . In history he is known by the honourable surname of Beauclerc ; but , in his own time , his own countrymen called him by a Saxon ...
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... regarded each other with aversion such as has scarcely ever existed between communities sepa- rated by physical barriers . For even the mutual animosity of countries at war with each other is languid when compared with the animosity of ...
... regarded each other with aversion such as has scarcely ever existed between communities sepa- rated by physical barriers . For even the mutual animosity of countries at war with each other is languid when compared with the animosity of ...
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... regarded the islanders , was now retorted by the islanders on the people of the Continent . Every yeo- man from Kent to Northumberland valued himself as one of a race born for victory and dominion , and looked down with scorn on the ...
... regarded the islanders , was now retorted by the islanders on the people of the Continent . Every yeo- man from Kent to Northumberland valued himself as one of a race born for victory and dominion , and looked down with scorn on the ...
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