The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 2 |
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... never been young . His pearance . external appearance is almost as well known to us as to his own captains and counsellors . Sculptors , painters , and medallists exerted their utmost skill in the work of transmitting his features to ...
... never been young . His pearance . external appearance is almost as well known to us as to his own captains and counsellors . Sculptors , painters , and medallists exerted their utmost skill in the work of transmitting his features to ...
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... never imitated . For all persecution he felt a fixed aversion , which he avowed , not only where the avowal was obviously politic , but on occasions where it seemed that his interest would have been promoted by dissimulation or by ...
... never imitated . For all persecution he felt a fixed aversion , which he avowed , not only where the avowal was obviously politic , but on occasions where it seemed that his interest would have been promoted by dissimulation or by ...
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... never so high and his manners never so gracious and easy as amidst the tumult and carnage of a battle . Even in his pas- times he liked the excitement of danger . Cards , chess , and billiards gave him no pleasure . The chase was his ...
... never so high and his manners never so gracious and easy as amidst the tumult and carnage of a battle . Even in his pas- times he liked the excitement of danger . Cards , chess , and billiards gave him no pleasure . The chase was his ...
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... never failed , on any great occasion , to bear up his suffering and languid body . CHAP . VII . ners and tions . He was born with violent passions and quick sensibilities : Coldness but the strength of his emotions was not suspected by ...
... never failed , on any great occasion , to bear up his suffering and languid body . CHAP . VII . ners and tions . He was born with violent passions and quick sensibilities : Coldness but the strength of his emotions was not suspected by ...
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... never occurred to her that the relation in which they stood to each other might one day be inverted . She had been nine years married before she discovered the cause of William's discontent ; nor would she ever have learned it from ...
... never occurred to her that the relation in which they stood to each other might one day be inverted . She had been nine years married before she discovered the cause of William's discontent ; nor would she ever have learned it from ...
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