The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 2 |
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... necessary for the construction of a ravelin or a hornwork . Of languages , by the help of a memory singularly powerful , he learned as much as was necessary to enable him to compre- hend and answer without assistance everything that was ...
... necessary for the construction of a ravelin or a hornwork . Of languages , by the help of a memory singularly powerful , he learned as much as was necessary to enable him to compre- hend and answer without assistance everything that was ...
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... necessary for the conduct of important business ripened in him at a time of life when they have scarcely begun to blossom in ordinary men . Since Octavius the world had seen no such instance of precocious statesmanship . Skilful ...
... necessary for the conduct of important business ripened in him at a time of life when they have scarcely begun to blossom in ordinary men . Since Octavius the world had seen no such instance of precocious statesmanship . Skilful ...
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... necessary that their leader should show them how battles were to be won . And in truth more than one day which had seemed hopelessly lost was retrieved by the hardihood with which he rallied his broken battalions and cut down the ...
... necessary that their leader should show them how battles were to be won . And in truth more than one day which had seemed hopelessly lost was retrieved by the hardihood with which he rallied his broken battalions and cut down the ...
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... necessary to its efficiency and dignity . He had seen with still deeper displeasure the countenance given by a large section of that party to the pretensions of Monmouth . The opposition , it seemed , wished first to make the crown of ...
... necessary to its efficiency and dignity . He had seen with still deeper displeasure the countenance given by a large section of that party to the pretensions of Monmouth . The opposition , it seemed , wished first to make the crown of ...
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... necessary to his great design . In the days of the Popish plot , therefore , though he disapproved of the violence with which the opposition attacked the royal authority , he exhorted the government to give way . The conduct of the ...
... necessary to his great design . In the days of the Popish plot , therefore , though he disapproved of the violence with which the opposition attacked the royal authority , he exhorted the government to give way . The conduct of the ...
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