Historical EssaysC. Scribner's sons, 1921 - 501 pages |
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... writer to make history universally in- teresting and it is from him that most of his countrymen still derive their enduring impressions . . . . A work which appeals to men of all races , and which has held its own for three generations ...
... writer to make history universally in- teresting and it is from him that most of his countrymen still derive their enduring impressions . . . . A work which appeals to men of all races , and which has held its own for three generations ...
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... writer of history . One was that he was a born story - teller . He places the reader , as , before writing , he has placed himself , in the very center of the scenes and amid the persons whom he is attempting to portray . No detail of ...
... writer of history . One was that he was a born story - teller . He places the reader , as , before writing , he has placed himself , in the very center of the scenes and amid the persons whom he is attempting to portray . No detail of ...
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... writer is less subtle , less fond of divided or suspended judgments . Lord Melbourne , with the irony of the ex- perienced and disillusioned man of the world , hit off this trait once for all , this overweening self - confidence , when ...
... writer is less subtle , less fond of divided or suspended judgments . Lord Melbourne , with the irony of the ex- perienced and disillusioned man of the world , hit off this trait once for all , this overweening self - confidence , when ...
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... writer . The third volume seems to me worth two of the second , and the second worth ten of the first . " Macaulay would have been surprised , indeed , had he known of the steady demand for his Essays in the decades to come . Edition ...
... writer . The third volume seems to me worth two of the second , and the second worth ten of the first . " Macaulay would have been surprised , indeed , had he known of the steady demand for his Essays in the decades to come . Edition ...
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... writers of Charles's faction . Those writers have carefully preserved every little circumstance which could tend to make their op- ponents odious or contemptible . They have made them- selves merry with the cant of injudicious zealots ...
... writers of Charles's faction . Those writers have carefully preserved every little circumstance which could tend to make their op- ponents odious or contemptible . They have made them- selves merry with the cant of injudicious zealots ...
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Page 364 - Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition — a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid.
Page 379 - With all his faults, — and they were neither few nor small, — only one cemetery was worthy to contain his remains. 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 illustrious accused should have mingled with the dust of the illustrious accusers.
Page 74 - Pitt was then one of the poor ; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of " the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England, and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Page 240 - The servants of the Company obtained, not for their employers, hut for themselves, a monopoly of almost the whole internal trade. They forced the natives to buy dear and to sell cheap. They insulted with impunity the tribunals, the police, and the fiscal authorities of the country. They covered with their protection a set of native dependents who ranged through the provinces, spreading desolation and terror wherever they appeared. Every servant of a British factor was...
Page 226 - English valour and English intelligence have done less to extend and to preserve our Oriental empire than English veracity. All that we could have gained by imitating the doublings, the evasions, the fictions, the perjuries which have been employed against us, is as nothing when compared with what we have gained by being the one power in India on whose word reliance can be placed. No oath which superstition can devise, no hostage however precious, inspires a hundredth part of the confidence which...
Page 367 - ... 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 353 - ... swinging in the air, the graceful maiden, with the pitcher on her head, descending the steps to the river-side, the black faces, the long beards, the yellow streaks of sect, the turbans and the flowing robes, the spears and the silver maces, the elephants with their canopies of state, the gorgeous palanquin of the prince, and the close litter of the noble lady, all those things were to him as the objects amidst which his own life had been passed, as the objects which lay on the road between Beaconsfield...
Page 363 - ... as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art. There were seated round the Queen the fair-haired young daughters of the house of Brunswick.
Page 335 - Sir, the Nabob having determined to inflict corporal punishment upon the prisoners under your guard, this is to desire that his officers, when they shall come, may have free access to the prisoners, and be permitted to do with them as they shall see proper.
Page 203 - ... loaded muskets, and every shot told on the living mass below. After three desperate onsets, the besiegers retired behind the ditch. The struggle lasted about an hour. Four hundred of the assailants fell. The garrison lost only five or six men. The besieged passed an anxious night, looking for a renewal of the attack. But when day broke, the enemy were no more to be seen. They had retired, leaving to the English several guns and a large quantity of ammunition.