The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 2 |
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... chief materials from which I have taken my description of the Prince of Orange will be found in Burnet's His- tory , in Temple's and Gourville's Me- moirs , in the Negotiations of the Counts of Estrades and Avaux , in Sir George ...
... chief materials from which I have taken my description of the Prince of Orange will be found in Burnet's His- tory , in Temple's and Gourville's Me- moirs , in the Negotiations of the Counts of Estrades and Avaux , in Sir George ...
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... chief of a great but depressed and disheartened party , and the heir to vast and indefinite pretensions , which excited the dread and aver- sion of the oligarchy then supreme in the United Provinces . The common people , fondly attached ...
... chief of a great but depressed and disheartened party , and the heir to vast and indefinite pretensions , which excited the dread and aver- sion of the oligarchy then supreme in the United Provinces . The common people , fondly attached ...
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... chief : but those who knew him well and saw him near were aware that under all this ice a fierce fire was constantly burning . It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself . But when he was really enraged the first ...
... chief : but those who knew him well and saw him near were aware that under all this ice a fierce fire was constantly burning . It was seldom that anger deprived him of power over himself . But when he was really enraged the first ...
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... chief of a great monarchy , and would hold the balance of Europe , while her lord , ambitious , versed in affairs , and bent on great enterprises , would find in the British government no place marked out for him , and would hold power ...
... chief of a great monarchy , and would hold the balance of Europe , while her lord , ambitious , versed in affairs , and bent on great enterprises , would find in the British government no place marked out for him , and would hold power ...
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... chief object . Whatever patriotic feeling he had was for Holland . There was the stately tomb where His feel- slept the great politician whose blood , whose name , whose ings to- temperament , and whose genius he had inherited . There ...
... chief object . Whatever patriotic feeling he had was for Holland . There was the stately tomb where His feel- slept the great politician whose blood , whose name , whose ings to- temperament , and whose genius he had inherited . There ...
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