The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: Critical and historical essaysLongmans, Green, 1866 |
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... thought of taking down the arms of the ancient Templars and Hos- pitallers from the walls of his hall , and setting off on a cru- sade to the Holy Land , as of acting in the spirit of those daring warriors and statesmen , great even in ...
... thought of taking down the arms of the ancient Templars and Hos- pitallers from the walls of his hall , and setting off on a cru- sade to the Holy Land , as of acting in the spirit of those daring warriors and statesmen , great even in ...
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... thought to prefer his tub to a palace , and who has nothing to ask of the masters of Windsor and Versailles but that they will stand out of his light , is a gentleman - usher at heart . He had , it is plain , an uneasy consciousness of ...
... thought to prefer his tub to a palace , and who has nothing to ask of the masters of Windsor and Versailles but that they will stand out of his light , is a gentleman - usher at heart . He had , it is plain , an uneasy consciousness of ...
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... thought , would have been easily found . He might have mentioned the loss of a king who was the most munifi- cent and judicious patron that the fine arts have ever had in England , the troubled state of the country , the distressed ...
... thought , would have been easily found . He might have mentioned the loss of a king who was the most munifi- cent and judicious patron that the fine arts have ever had in England , the troubled state of the country , the distressed ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. He appears to have thought that he saw very far into men ; but we are under the necessity of altogether dissenting from his opinion . We do not conceive that he had any power of discerning the ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. He appears to have thought that he saw very far into men ; but we are under the necessity of altogether dissenting from his opinion . We do not conceive that he had any power of discerning the ...
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... thought the book dull . Walpole's Letters are generally considered as his best per- formances , and , we think , with reason . His faults are far less offensive to us in his correspondence than in his books . His wild , absurd , and ...
... thought the book dull . Walpole's Letters are generally considered as his best per- formances , and , we think , with reason . His faults are far less offensive to us in his correspondence than in his books . His wild , absurd , 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.