Lord Macaulay's Essays: And Lays of Ancient RomeLongmans, Green, 1889 - 923 pages |
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... defended it , that nothing can be more absurd than the imputations which , for the last hundred and sixty years , it has been the fashion to cast upon the Regicides . We have , throughout , abstained from appealing to first prin- ciples ...
... defended it , that nothing can be more absurd than the imputations which , for the last hundred and sixty years , it has been the fashion to cast upon the Regicides . We have , throughout , abstained from appealing to first prin- ciples ...
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... defend it against the ravings of servility and superstition . For the sake of public liberty , we wish that the thing had not been done , while the people disapproved of it . But , for the sake of public liberty , we should also have ...
... defend it against the ravings of servility and superstition . For the sake of public liberty , we wish that the thing had not been done , while the people disapproved of it . But , for the sake of public liberty , we should also have ...
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... defend themselves ; and the public would not take them un- der its protection . They were therefore abandoned , without reserve , to the tender mercies of the satirists and dramatists . The ostentatious simplicity of their dress , their ...
... defend themselves ; and the public would not take them un- der its protection . They were therefore abandoned , without reserve , to the tender mercies of the satirists and dramatists . The ostentatious simplicity of their dress , their ...
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... defending without love , destroying without hatred . There was a freedom in their subserviency , a nobleness in ... defended a false and loathsome sorceress . In truth they scarcely entered at all into the merits of the political ...
... defending without love , destroying without hatred . There was a freedom in their subserviency , a nobleness in ... defended a false and loathsome sorceress . In truth they scarcely entered at all into the merits of the political ...
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... defending the popular parts of his religious and political creed . He took his own stand upon those which the great body of his countrymen reprobated as criminal , or derided as paradoxical . He stood up for divorce and regicide . He ...
... defending the popular parts of his religious and political creed . He took his own stand upon those which the great body of his countrymen reprobated as criminal , or derided as paradoxical . He stood up for divorce and regicide . He ...
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