The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete: Critical and historical essaysLongmans, Green, and Company, 1897 |
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... reason , in perfect equality and perfect amity , without pro- perty , or marriage , or king , or God . A fanatic of another kind might see nothing in the doctrines of the philosophers but anarchy and atheism , might cling more closely ...
... reason , in perfect equality and perfect amity , without pro- perty , or marriage , or king , or God . A fanatic of another kind might see nothing in the doctrines of the philosophers but anarchy and atheism , might cling more closely ...
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... reason , or fills the imagination , or touches the heart ; but he keeps the mind of the reader constantly attentive , and constantly entertained . He had a strange ingenuity peculiarly his own , an ingenuity which appeared in all that ...
... reason , or fills the imagination , or touches the heart ; but he keeps the mind of the reader constantly attentive , and constantly entertained . He had a strange ingenuity peculiarly his own , an ingenuity which appeared in all that ...
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... reason . His faults are far less offensive to us in his correspondence than in his books . His wild , absurd , and ever - changing opinions about men and things are easily pardoned in familiar letters . His bitter WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO ...
... reason . His faults are far less offensive to us in his correspondence than in his books . His wild , absurd , and ever - changing opinions about men and things are easily pardoned in familiar letters . His bitter WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO ...
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... reason or humanity , but which appears to Mr. Thackeray worthy of the highest admiration . We will not stop to argue a point on which we had long thought that all well informed people were agreed . We could easily show , we think , that ...
... reason or humanity , but which appears to Mr. Thackeray worthy of the highest admiration . We will not stop to argue a point on which we had long thought that all well informed people were agreed . We could easily show , we think , that ...
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... reason , that the punishing of such errors tends not to prevent them , but to produce them . The dread of an igno- minious death may stimulate sluggishness to exertion , may keep a traitor to his standard , may prevent a coward from ...
... reason , that the punishing of such errors tends not to prevent them , but to produce them . The dread of an igno- minious death may stimulate sluggishness to exertion , may keep a traitor to his standard , may prevent a coward from ...
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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...