The Works of Lord Macaulay, Volume 9Longmans, Green and Company, 1898 Library has v. 1-6. |
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... hundred years ago . But he hardly thinks that the sufferings of a dozen felons , pigging together on bare bricks in a hole fifteen feet square , would form a subject suited to the dignity of history . Another , from respect for the ...
... hundred years ago . But he hardly thinks that the sufferings of a dozen felons , pigging together on bare bricks in a hole fifteen feet square , would form a subject suited to the dignity of history . Another , from respect for the ...
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... hundred thousand pounds is in one sense a more momentous affair than an action for fifty pounds . But it by no means follows that the learned gentlemen who report the proceedings of the courts of law ought to give a fuller account of an ...
... hundred thousand pounds is in one sense a more momentous affair than an action for fifty pounds . But it by no means follows that the learned gentlemen who report the proceedings of the courts of law ought to give a fuller account of an ...
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... hundred and eighty years ago , how far their minds were cultivated , what were their favourite studies , what degree of liberty was allowed to them , what use they made of that liberty , what accomplishments they most valued in men ...
... hundred and eighty years ago , how far their minds were cultivated , what were their favourite studies , what degree of liberty was allowed to them , what use they made of that liberty , what accomplishments they most valued in men ...
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... hundred thousand human beings at once , and to fill the void with a well - governed population , than to misgovern millions through a long succession of generations . We can much more easily pardon tremendous severities inflicted for a ...
... hundred thousand human beings at once , and to fill the void with a well - governed population , than to misgovern millions through a long succession of generations . We can much more easily pardon tremendous severities inflicted for a ...
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... hundred pounds a year , a sum which was then sufficient for the wants of a family mixing in fashionable circles . He passed two years in London , where he seems to have led that easy , lounging life which was best suited to his temper ...
... hundred pounds a year , a sum which was then sufficient for the wants of a family mixing in fashionable circles . He passed two years in London , where he seems to have led that easy , lounging life which was best suited to his temper ...
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Page 100 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 376 - I live a rent-charge on his providence. But you, whom every Muse and Grace adorn, Whom I foresee to better fortune born, Be kind to my remains ; and, oh defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend ! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you : And take for tribute what these lines express ; You merit more, nor could my love do less.
Page 516 - He had just as lively an idea of the insurrection at Benares, as of Lord George Gordon's riots, and of the execution of Nuncomar as of the execution of Dr. Dodd. Oppression in Bengal was to him the same thing as oppression in the streets of London.
Page 534 - ... public to hear him was unbounded. His sparkling and highly finished declamation lasted two days ; but the Hall was crowded to suffocation during the whole time. It was said that fifty guineas had been paid for a single ticket. Sheridan, when he concluded, contrived, with a knowledge of stage-effect which his father might have envied, to sink back, as if exhausted, into the arms of Burke, who hugged him with the energy of generous admiration.
Page 532 - But those who, within the last ten years, have listened with delight, till the morning sun shone on the tapestries of the House of Lords, to the lofty and animated eloquence of Charles Earl Grey, are able to form some estimate of the powers of a race of men among whom he was not the foremost.
Page 226 - But these things, which, after the lapse of more than eighty years, cannot be told or read without horror, awakened neither remorse nor pity in the bosom of the savage Nabob. He inflicted no punishment on the murderers. He showed no tenderness to the survivors.
Page 440 - Then the horrors of Indian war were let loose on the fair valleys and cities of Rohilcund. The whole country was in a blaze. More than a hundred thousand people fled from their homes to pestilential jungles, preferring famine, and fever, and the haunts of tigers, to the tyranny of him, to whom an English and a Christian government had, for shameful lucre, sold their substance, and their blood, and the honour of their wives and daughters.
Page 381 - Collier published his Short View of the Profaneness and Immorality of the English Stage, a book which threw the whole literary world into commotion, but which is now much less read than it deserves. The faults of the work, indeed, are neither few nor small. The dissertations on the Greek and Latin drama do not at all help the argument, and, whatever may have been thought of them by the generation which fancied that...
Page 427 - The physical organization of the Bengalee is feeble, even to effeminacy. He lives in a constant vapour bath. His pursuits are sedentary, his limbs delicate, his movements languid. During many ages he has been trampled upon by men of bolder and more hardy breeds.
Page 548 - In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall, the dust of the VOL. IX NN illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.