Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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Page vii
... political station , he had neither to struggle nor scramble for advancement . Almost as soon as his talents were ... politicians of his time , distinguished , even among such men as Wilberforce , Clarkson , and Stephen , for courage ...
... political station , he had neither to struggle nor scramble for advancement . Almost as soon as his talents were ... politicians of his time , distinguished , even among such men as Wilberforce , Clarkson , and Stephen , for courage ...
Page xv
... political articles ever published in the Edinburgh Review . Its tone was so violent and virulent , and excited so much opposition , that , in the next number of the Review , a kind of apology was offered for it under the form of ...
... political articles ever published in the Edinburgh Review . Its tone was so violent and virulent , and excited so much opposition , that , in the next number of the Review , a kind of apology was offered for it under the form of ...
Page xvii
... political oppo- nents , whose pen , in the heat of faction , was unre- strained by any of the proprieties of controversy . In the number of the Noctes Ambrosianæ , for August , 1831 , Macaulay is sneered at as a person whom it is the ...
... political oppo- nents , whose pen , in the heat of faction , was unre- strained by any of the proprieties of controversy . In the number of the Noctes Ambrosianæ , for August , 1831 , Macaulay is sneered at as a person whom it is the ...
Page xviii
... political life , and was incapable of the con- tinuous party passion which sustains the professional politician . An ardent Whig partisan , his partisanship was still roused by the principles of his party rather than by its expedients ...
... political life , and was incapable of the con- tinuous party passion which sustains the professional politician . An ardent Whig partisan , his partisanship was still roused by the principles of his party rather than by its expedients ...
Page xx
... political adventurer ; and he had every reason to suppose that he might reach , in England , high political office all the more surely if it were un- derstood that the emoluments of high political office were not the primary objects of ...
... political adventurer ; and he had every reason to suppose that he might reach , in England , high political office all the more surely if it were un- derstood that the emoluments of high political office were not the primary objects of ...
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