Lord Macaulay's Essays: And Lays of Ancient RomeLongmans, Green, 1889 - 923 pages |
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... characters . As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings , the illu- sion is broken . The effect is as ... character . The genius of the greatest of the Athenian dramatists co - operated with the circumstances under which ...
... characters . As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings , the illu- sion is broken . The effect is as ... character . The genius of the greatest of the Athenian dramatists co - operated with the circumstances under which ...
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... character from their moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beg- gars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of ...
... character from their moral qualities . They are not egotists . They rarely obtrude their idiosyncrasies on their readers . They have nothing in common with those modern beg- gars for fame , who extort a pittance from the compassion of ...
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... character of a nation . We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions . But the more violent the outrages , the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary . The violence of those outrages will always be proportioned to ...
... character of a nation . We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions . But the more violent the outrages , the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary . The violence of those outrages will always be proportioned to ...
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... character lie on the surface . He that runs may read them ; nor have there been wanting attentive and malicious observers to point them out . For many years after the Restoration , they were the theme of unmeasured invective and ...
... character lie on the surface . He that runs may read them ; nor have there been wanting attentive and malicious observers to point them out . For many years after the Restoration , they were the theme of unmeasured invective and ...
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... character of the Puritans . We per- ceive the absurdity of their manners . We dislike the sullen gloom of their domestic habits . We acknowledge that the tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for ...
... character of the Puritans . We per- ceive the absurdity of their manners . We dislike the sullen gloom of their domestic habits . We acknowledge that the tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for ...
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Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome (Classic Reprint) Thomas Babbington Macaulay No preview available - 2017 |
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