The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: Critical and historical essaysLongmans, Green, 1866 |
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... important pur- suits , to researches after Queen Mary's comb , Wolsey's red hat , the pipe which Van Tromp smoked during his last sea- fight , and the spur which King William struck into the flank of Sorrel . In every thing in which ...
... important pur- suits , to researches after Queen Mary's comb , Wolsey's red hat , the pipe which Van Tromp smoked during his last sea- fight , and the spur which King William struck into the flank of Sorrel . In every thing in which ...
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... important still , from bidding for Zinckes and Petitots , from cheapening fragments of ta- pestry and handles of old lances , from joining bits of painted glass , and from setting up memorials of departed cats and dogs . While he was ...
... important still , from bidding for Zinckes and Petitots , from cheapening fragments of ta- pestry and handles of old lances , from joining bits of painted glass , and from setting up memorials of departed cats and dogs . While he was ...
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... important , his passion for trifles , he thought fit to dignify with the name of philosophy . He spoke of himself as of a man whose equanimity was proof to ambi- tious hopes and fears , who had learned to rate power , wealth , and fame ...
... important , his passion for trifles , he thought fit to dignify with the name of philosophy . He spoke of himself as of a man whose equanimity was proof to ambi- tious hopes and fears , who had learned to rate power , wealth , and fame ...
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... important transactions of the last twenty years of George the Second's reign . It furnishes much new information concerning the history of that time , the portion of English history of which common readers know the least . The earlier ...
... important transactions of the last twenty years of George the Second's reign . It furnishes much new information concerning the history of that time , the portion of English history of which common readers know the least . The earlier ...
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... important change for the better or for the worse in any part of our institutions , marks the period of his supremacy . Nor was this because he did not clearly see that many changes were very desirable . He had been brought up in the ...
... important change for the better or for the worse in any part of our institutions , marks the period of his supremacy . Nor was this because he did not clearly see that many changes were very desirable . He had been brought up in the ...
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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.