Lord Macaulay's Essays and Lays of Ancient RomeLongmans, Green, and Company, 1920 - 923 pages |
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Page 13
... evil to come ; some had carried into foreign climates their unconquerable hatred of oppression ; some were pining in dun- geons ; and some had poured forth their blood on scaffolds . Venal and licen- tious scribblers , with just ...
... evil to come ; some had carried into foreign climates their unconquerable hatred of oppression ; some were pining in dun- geons ; and some had poured forth their blood on scaffolds . Venal and licen- tious scribblers , with just ...
Page 16
... evil be done , they care not who does it ; the arbitrary Charles , or the liberal William , Ferdinand the Catholic , or Frederic the Protestant . On such occasions their deadliest opponents may reckon upon their candid construction ...
... evil be done , they care not who does it ; the arbitrary Charles , or the liberal William , Ferdinand the Catholic , or Frederic the Protestant . On such occasions their deadliest opponents may reckon upon their candid construction ...
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... evil was incurred ; and the object was to render it as small as possible . We censure the chiefs of the army for not yielding to the popular opinion ; but we cannot censure Milton for wishing to change that opinion . The very feeling ...
... evil was incurred ; and the object was to render it as small as possible . We censure the chiefs of the army for not yielding to the popular opinion ; but we cannot censure Milton for wishing to change that opinion . The very feeling ...
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... Evil Principle , the discoverer of ambition and revenge , the original inventor of perjury , and that , before the publication of his fatal Prince , there had never been a hypocrite , a tyrant , or a traitor , a simulated virtue , or a ...
... Evil Principle , the discoverer of ambition and revenge , the original inventor of perjury , and that , before the publication of his fatal Prince , there had never been a hypocrite , a tyrant , or a traitor , a simulated virtue , or a ...
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... evil terminates in itself . A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character . The former is a local malady , the latter a constitutional taint . When the reputation of the offender is lost ...
... evil terminates in itself . A vice condemned by the general opinion produces a pernicious effect on the whole character . The former is a local malady , the latter a constitutional taint . When the reputation of the offender is lost ...
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