The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete: Critical and historical essaysLongmans, Green, and Company, 1897 |
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... considered a man of letters . Not that he was indifferent to literary fame . Far from it . Scarcely any writer has ever troubled himself so much about the appearance which his works were to make before posterity . But he had set his ...
... considered a man of letters . Not that he was indifferent to literary fame . Far from it . Scarcely any writer has ever troubled himself so much about the appearance which his works were to make before posterity . But he had set his ...
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... considered by those whose good opinion is not worth having as a great judge of character . It is said that the hasty and rapacious Kneller used to send away the ladies who sate to him as soon as he had sketched their faces , and to ...
... considered by those whose good opinion is not worth having as a great judge of character . It is said that the hasty and rapacious Kneller used to send away the ladies who sate to him as soon as he had sketched their faces , and to ...
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... considered as dull , on subjects which men of great talents have in vain endeavoured to ren- der popular . When we compare the Historic Doubts about Richard the Third with Whitaker's and Chalmer's books on a far more interesting ...
... considered as dull , on subjects which men of great talents have in vain endeavoured to ren- der popular . When we compare the Historic Doubts about Richard the Third with Whitaker's and Chalmer's books on a far more interesting ...
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... considered as his match . Con- fident in his talents and in the royal favour , he neglected all those means by which the power of Walpole had been created and maintained . His head was full of treaties and expedi- tions , of schemes for ...
... considered as his match . Con- fident in his talents and in the royal favour , he neglected all those means by which the power of Walpole had been created and maintained . His head was full of treaties and expedi- tions , of schemes for ...
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... considered as quite fair in public men , he showed the most scrupulous disinterestedness ; that , at a time when it seemed to be generally taken for granted that Government could be upheld only by the basest and most immoral arts , he ...
... considered as quite fair in public men , he showed the most scrupulous disinterestedness ; that , at a time when it seemed to be generally taken for granted that Government could be upheld only by the basest and most immoral arts , he ...
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Page 242 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 106 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 455 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 242 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 628 - Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when the foundations of our Constitution were laid ; or far away, over boundless seas and deserts, to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters from right to left.
Page 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Page 628 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
Page 479 - Place Ignatius Loyola at Oxford. He is certain to become the head of a formidable secession. Place John Wesley at Rome. He is certain to be the first General of a new society devoted to the interests and honour of the Church.
Page 632 - House of Parliament, whose trust he has betrayed. I impeach him in the name of the English nation, whose ancient honor he has sullied.
Page 328 - ... remarkable analogy to his mode of thinking, and indeed exercises great influence on his mode of thinking. His rhetoric, though often good of its kind, darkens and perplexes the logic which it should illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator, — a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import, — of...