The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: Critical and historical essaysLongmans, Green, 1866 |
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... spirit of those daring warriors and statesmen , great even in their errors , whose names and seals were affixed to the warrant which he prized so highly . He liked revolution and regicide only when they were a hundred years old . His ...
... spirit of those daring warriors and statesmen , great even in their errors , whose names and seals were affixed to the warrant which he prized so highly . He liked revolution and regicide only when they were a hundred years old . His ...
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... spirit as brave as that of the column of Fontenoy , first for victory , and then for honourable retreat . Horace was , of course , on the side of his family . Lord Dover seems to have been enthusiastic on the same side , and goes so 16 ...
... spirit as brave as that of the column of Fontenoy , first for victory , and then for honourable retreat . Horace was , of course , on the side of his family . Lord Dover seems to have been enthusiastic on the same side , and goes so 16 ...
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... spirit , and thought it far better that they should attack his power than that they should share it . The opposition was in every sense formidable . At its head were two royal personages , the exiled head of the House of Stuart , the ...
... spirit , and thought it far better that they should attack his power than that they should share it . The opposition was in every sense formidable . At its head were two royal personages , the exiled head of the House of Stuart , the ...
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... spirit , enabled him to maintain a defensive war through half the session . To the last his heart never failed him ; and , when at last he yielded , he yielded not to the threats of his enemies , but to the entreaties of his dispirited ...
... spirit , enabled him to maintain a defensive war through half the session . To the last his heart never failed him ; and , when at last he yielded , he yielded not to the threats of his enemies , but to the entreaties of his dispirited ...
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... implicitly to the management of Ministers , and to look with suspicion and contempt on all who pretended to public spirit . The name of patriot had be- come a by - word of derision . Horace Walpole 32 WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN .
... implicitly to the management of Ministers , and to look with suspicion and contempt on all who pretended to public spirit . The name of patriot had be- come a by - word of derision . Horace Walpole 32 WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN .
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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.