The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: Critical and historical essaysLongmans, Green, 1866 |
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... Court but for the support of the people . Now that the Court was at the mercy of the House of Commons , those members who were not returned by popular election had nobody to please but themselves . Even those who were returned by ...
... Court but for the support of the people . Now that the Court was at the mercy of the House of Commons , those members who were not returned by popular election had nobody to please but themselves . Even those who were returned by ...
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... court with emulous munificence to the wits and the poets ; others were honestly in- flamed by party zeal : almost all lent their aid to the Opposition . In truth , all that was alluring to ardent and imaginative minds was on that side ...
... court with emulous munificence to the wits and the poets ; others were honestly in- flamed by party zeal : almost all lent their aid to the Opposition . In truth , all that was alluring to ardent and imaginative minds was on that side ...
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... Court of Requests and the precincts of Westminster Hall . He cultivated all these eminent advantages with the most assiduous care . His action is described by a very malignant observer as equal to that of Garrick . His play of ...
... Court of Requests and the precincts of Westminster Hall . He cultivated all these eminent advantages with the most assiduous care . His action is described by a very malignant observer as equal to that of Garrick . His play of ...
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... Court and of the aristocracy , he began to think of a coalition with . Newcastle . Newcastle was equally disposed to a reconciliation . He , too , had profited by his recent experience . He had found that the Court and the aristocracy ...
... Court and of the aristocracy , he began to think of a coalition with . Newcastle . Newcastle was equally disposed to a reconciliation . He , too , had profited by his recent experience . He had found that the Court and the aristocracy ...
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... Court of Versailles had confided the defence of French America was destroyed . The captured standards were borne in triumph from Kensington Palace to the city , and were suspended in St. Paul's Church , amidst the roar of guns and ...
... Court of Versailles had confided the defence of French America was destroyed . The captured standards were borne in triumph from Kensington Palace to the city , and were suspended in St. Paul's Church , amidst the roar of guns and ...
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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 606 - 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 453 - 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 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Page 303 - A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Page 203 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Page 604 - 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, and imaginative mind.
Page 453 - She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world ; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all. She was great and respected before the Saxon had set foot on Britain, before the Frank had passed the Rhine, when Grecian eloquence still nourished in Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca.