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Page 5
He was a Whig by the accident of hereditary connexion ; but he was essentially a
courtier ; and not the less a courtier because he pretended to sneer at the objects
which excited his admiration and envy . His real tastes perpetually show ...
He was a Whig by the accident of hereditary connexion ; but he was essentially a
courtier ; and not the less a courtier because he pretended to sneer at the objects
which excited his admiration and envy . His real tastes perpetually show ...
Page 10
And even of Montesquieu he speaks with less enthusiasm than of that abject
thing , Crébillon the younger , a scribbler as licentious as Louvet and as dull as
Rapin . A man must be strangely constituted who can take interest in pedantic ...
And even of Montesquieu he speaks with less enthusiasm than of that abject
thing , Crébillon the younger , a scribbler as licentious as Louvet and as dull as
Rapin . A man must be strangely constituted who can take interest in pedantic ...
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His faults are far less offensive to us in his correspondence than in his books . His
wild , absurd , and ever - changing opinions about men and things are easily
pardoned in familiar letters . His bitter WALPOLE ' S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE
...
His faults are far less offensive to us in his correspondence than in his books . His
wild , absurd , and ever - changing opinions about men and things are easily
pardoned in familiar letters . His bitter WALPOLE ' S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE
...
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The other schemes of which the public mind was full were less dangerous than
this . Some of them were in themselves harmless . But none of them would have
done much good , and most of them were extravagantly absurd . What they were
...
The other schemes of which the public mind was full were less dangerous than
this . Some of them were in themselves harmless . But none of them would have
done much good , and most of them were extravagantly absurd . What they were
...
Page 31
But it is less easy to understand why he should have been generally unpopular
throughout the country . His brilliant talents , his bold and open temper , ought , it
should seem , to have made him a favourite with the public . But the people had ...
But it is less easy to understand why he should have been generally unpopular
throughout the country . His brilliant talents , his bold and open temper , ought , it
should seem , to have made him a favourite with the public . But the people had ...
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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...
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| Title | The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 6 The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Thomas Babington baron Macaulay |
| Author | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay |
| Editor | lady Hannah Trevelyan |
| Published | 1866 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 27 Jun 2006 |
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