The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 6Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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Page 21
... conduct . It is the maxim of a man more solicitous to hold power long than to use it well . It is remarkable that , though he was at the head of affairs during more than twenty years , not one great measure , not one important change ...
... conduct . It is the maxim of a man more solicitous to hold power long than to use it well . It is remarkable that , though he was at the head of affairs during more than twenty years , not one great measure , not one important change ...
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... conduct of Walpole with regard to the Spanish war is the great blemish of his public life . Archdeacon Coxe ima- gined that he had discovered one grand principle of action to which the whole public conduct of his hero ought to be re ...
... conduct of Walpole with regard to the Spanish war is the great blemish of his public life . Archdeacon Coxe ima- gined that he had discovered one grand principle of action to which the whole public conduct of his hero ought to be re ...
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... conduct is to be referred . The governing principle of his conduct was neither love of peace nor love of war , but love of power . The praise to which he is fairly entitled is this , that he un- derstood the true interest of his country ...
... conduct is to be referred . The governing principle of his conduct was neither love of peace nor love of war , but love of power . The praise to which he is fairly entitled is this , that he un- derstood the true interest of his country ...
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... conduct at some of the most important conjunctures of his life was evi- The quotation is faithfully made from Mr. Thackeray . Perhaps Pitt wrote guide in the fourth line . He dently determined by pride and resentment . He had THE EARL ...
... conduct at some of the most important conjunctures of his life was evi- The quotation is faithfully made from Mr. Thackeray . Perhaps Pitt wrote guide in the fourth line . He dently determined by pride and resentment . He had THE EARL ...
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... conduct regarding the South - Sea scheme . Craggs was perhaps saved by a timely death from a similar mark of infamy . A large minority in the House of Commons voted for a severe censure on Sunderland , who finding it impossible to ...
... conduct regarding the South - Sea scheme . Craggs was perhaps saved by a timely death from a similar mark of infamy . A large minority in the House of Commons voted for a severe censure on Sunderland , who finding it impossible to ...
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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 316 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 629 - There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.
Page 190 - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
Page 518 - Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength.
Page 620 - India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and the...
Page 631 - ... negligent of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of the age, his form developed by every manly exercise, his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham.
Page 396 - The sepoys came to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans, who required more nourishment than the natives of Asia. The thin gruel, they said, which was strained away from the rice, would suffice for themselves. History contains no more touching instance of military fidelity, or of the influence of a commanding mind.
Page 518 - O defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you: And take for tribute what these lines express: You merit more; nor could my love do less.
Page 628 - 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, an imaginative mind.