The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 2 |
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... duty , and on a cool calculation of what the public interest required , that he was always at the post of danger . The troops which he commanded had been little used to war , and shrank from a close encounter with the veteran soldiery ...
... duty , and on a cool calculation of what the public interest required , that he was always at the post of danger . The troops which he commanded had been little used to war , and shrank from a close encounter with the veteran soldiery ...
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... Duty of Man , would be the 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 ...
... Duty of Man , would be the 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 ...
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... duty . Three great coalitions , three long and bloody wars in which all Europe from the Vistula to the Western Ocean was in arms , are to be ascribed to his uncon- querable energy . When in 1678 the States General , ex- hausted and ...
... duty . Three great coalitions , three long and bloody wars in which all Europe from the Vistula to the Western Ocean was in arms , are to be ascribed to his uncon- querable energy . When in 1678 the States General , ex- hausted and ...
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... duty . Towards that end he toiled with a patience resembling , as he once said , the patience with which he had seen a boatman on a canal strain against an adverse eddy , often swept back , but never ceasing to pull , and content if ...
... duty . Towards that end he toiled with a patience resembling , as he once said , the patience with which he had seen a boatman on a canal strain against an adverse eddy , often swept back , but never ceasing to pull , and content if ...
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... duty had constrained to take a step of awful importance . Had he been such a man , the same conviction which had led him to join the Church of Rome would surely have prevented him from violating grossly and habitually rules which that ...
... duty had constrained to take a step of awful importance . Had he been such a man , the same conviction which had led him to join the Church of Rome would surely have prevented him from violating grossly and habitually rules which that ...
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