The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete: Critical and historical essaysLongmans, Green, and Company, 1897 |
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... successful party . It was impossible to find places for a tenth part of those who thought that they had a right to ... success by any ordinary mode of political war- fare , and blind to consequences which , though remote , were certain ...
... successful party . It was impossible to find places for a tenth part of those who thought that they had a right to ... success by any ordinary mode of political war- fare , and blind to consequences which , though remote , were certain ...
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... success to the English arms , the Minister heard all the steeples of the city jingling with a merry peal , and muttered , " They may ring the bells now they will be wringing their hands before long . " Another grievance , for which of ...
... success to the English arms , the Minister heard all the steeples of the city jingling with a merry peal , and muttered , " They may ring the bells now they will be wringing their hands before long . " Another grievance , for which of ...
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... success with so exquisite a relish , or submitted to defeat with so genuine and unforced a cheerful- ness . Ill as he had been used , he did not seem , says Horace Walpole , to have any resentment , or indeed any feeling ex- cept thirst ...
... success with so exquisite a relish , or submitted to defeat with so genuine and unforced a cheerful- ness . Ill as he had been used , he did not seem , says Horace Walpole , to have any resentment , or indeed any feeling ex- cept thirst ...
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... success is a signal instance of what may be effected by a man who devotes his whole heart and soul with- out reserve to one object . He was eaten up by ambition . His love of influence and authority resembled the avarice of the old ...
... success is a signal instance of what may be effected by a man who devotes his whole heart and soul with- out reserve to one object . He was eaten up by ambition . His love of influence and authority resembled the avarice of the old ...
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... success to the resolution which he formed when very young , of speaking , well or ill , at least once every night . " During five whole sessions , " he used to say , " I spoke every night but one ; and I regret only that I did not speak ...
... success to the resolution which he formed when very young , of speaking , well or ill , at least once every night . " During five whole sessions , " he used to say , " I spoke every night but one ; and I regret only that I did not speak ...
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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...