The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: History of EnglandLongmans, Green, 1866 |
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... kingdoms into which the Roman empire was then dissolved , the con- In this , and in the next chapter , I have very seldom thought it necessary to cite authorities : for , in these chapters , I have not detailed events minutely , or used ...
... kingdoms into which the Roman empire was then dissolved , the con- In this , and in the next chapter , I have very seldom thought it necessary to cite authorities : for , in these chapters , I have not detailed events minutely , or used ...
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... kingdoms which had risen on the ruins of the Western Empire kept up some intercourse with those eastern provinces where the ancient civilisation , though slowly fading away under the influence of misgovernment , might still astonish and ...
... kingdoms which had risen on the ruins of the Western Empire kept up some intercourse with those eastern provinces where the ancient civilisation , though slowly fading away under the influence of misgovernment , might still astonish and ...
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... kingdom were supposed to belong exclusively to the countrymen of the Conqueror , the despised race learned , with transports of delight , that • > I. one of themselves , Nicholas Breakspear , had 18 HISTORY OF ENGLAND , Beneficial ...
... kingdom were supposed to belong exclusively to the countrymen of the Conqueror , the despised race learned , with transports of delight , that • > I. one of themselves , Nicholas Breakspear , had 18 HISTORY OF ENGLAND , Beneficial ...
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... kingdom except her own , who , to do her justice , seem to have been very tenderly treated . There can be no doubt that , when these two great revolu- tions had been effected , our forefathers were by far the best governed people in ...
... kingdom except her own , who , to do her justice , seem to have been very tenderly treated . There can be no doubt that , when these two great revolu- tions had been effected , our forefathers were by far the best governed people in ...
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... kingdom . This question could be decided only by reference to the records of preceding reigns . Bracton and Fleta , the Mirror of Justice and the Rolls of Parliament , were ransacked to find pre- texts for the excesses of the Star ...
... kingdom . This question could be decided only by reference to the records of preceding reigns . Bracton and Fleta , the Mirror of Justice and the Rolls of Parliament , were ransacked to find pre- texts for the excesses of the Star ...
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Page 471 - The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know ; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day...
Page 333 - And yet it may then be the mode to assert that the increase of wealth and the progress of science have benefited the few at the expense of the many, and to talk of the reign of Queen Victoria as the time when 'England was truly merry England, when all classes were bound together by brotherly sympathy, when the rich did not grind the faces of the poor, and when the poor did not envy the splendour of the rich.
Page 3 - Nothing in the early existence of Britain indicated the greatness which she was destined to attain. Her inhabitants, when first they became known to the Tyrian mariners, were little superior to the natives of the Sandwich Islands.
Page 127 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 250 - His chief pleasures were commonly derived from field sports and from an unrefined sensuality. His language and pronunciation were such as we should now expect to hear only from the most ignorant clowns.
Page 291 - Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove national and provincial antipathies, and to bind together all the branches of the great human family.
Page 330 - Some frightful diseases have been extirpated by science ; and some have been banished by police. The term of human life has been lengthened over the whole kingdom, and especially in the towns. The year 1685 was not accounted sickly ; yet in the year 1685 more than one in twenty-three of the inhabitants of the capital died.* At present only one inhabitant of the capital in forty dies annually. The difference in salubrity between the London of the nineteenth century and the London of the seventeenth...
Page 255 - Elizabeth, scarce a single person of noble descent took orders. At the close of the reign of Charles the Second, two sons of peers were bishops : four or five sons of peers were priests, and held valuable preferment: but these rare exceptions did not take away the reproach which lay on the body. The clergy were regarded as, on the •whole, a plebeian class. And, indeed, for one who made the figure of a gentleman, ten were mere menial servants.
Page 38 - The loveliest and most fertile provinces of Europe have, under her rule, been sunk in poverty, in political servitude, and in intellectual torpor, while Protestant countries, once proverbial for sterility and barbarism, have been turned by skill and industry into gardens, and can boast of a long list of heroes and statesmen, philosophers and poets.
Page 245 - The red deer were then as common in Gloucestershire and Hampshire as they now are among the Grampian Hills. On one occasion Queen Anne, on her way to Portsmouth, saw a herd of no less than five hundred. The wild bull with his white mane was still to be found wandering in a few of the southern forests.