The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: Critical and historical essaysLongmans, Green, 1866 |
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... means by which that instrument was obtained that could gratify a judicious lover of liberty . A man must hate kings very bitterly , before he can think it desirable that the representatives of the people should be turned out of doors by ...
... means by which that instrument was obtained that could gratify a judicious lover of liberty . A man must hate kings very bitterly , before he can think it desirable that the representatives of the people should be turned out of doors by ...
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... means unnatural . There is scarcely any public man in our history of whose manners and conversation so many particu- lars have been preserved . Single stories may be unfounded or exaggerated . But all the stories about him , whether ...
... means unnatural . There is scarcely any public man in our history of whose manners and conversation so many particu- lars have been preserved . Single stories may be unfounded or exaggerated . But all the stories about him , whether ...
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... means of public opinion , what no other statesman of his day thought it possible to do , except by means of corruption ; that he looked for support , not , like the Pelhams , to a strong aristocratical connexion , not 38 THACKERAY'S ...
... means of public opinion , what no other statesman of his day thought it possible to do , except by means of corruption ; that he looked for support , not , like the Pelhams , to a strong aristocratical connexion , not 38 THACKERAY'S ...
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... means of eminent services rendered to the state . The family of Pitt was wealthy and respectable . His grandfather was Governor of Madras , and brought back from India that celebrated diamond which the Regent Or- leans , by the advice ...
... means of eminent services rendered to the state . The family of Pitt was wealthy and respectable . His grandfather was Governor of Madras , and brought back from India that celebrated diamond which the Regent Or- leans , by the advice ...
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... means improbable that the pains which he took to improve his great personal advantages had , in some respects , a prejudicial operation , and tended to nourish in him that passion for theatrical effect which , as we have already ...
... means improbable that the pains which he took to improve his great personal advantages had , in some respects , a prejudicial operation , and tended to nourish in him that passion for theatrical effect which , as we have already ...
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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.