The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 6Longmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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... tion . Bolingbroke , who was the ablest and the most vehe- ment of those who raised the clamour against corruption , had no better remedy to propose than that the Royal prerogative should be strengthened . The remedy would no doubt have ...
... tion . Bolingbroke , who was the ablest and the most vehe- ment of those who raised the clamour against corruption , had no better remedy to propose than that the Royal prerogative should be strengthened . The remedy would no doubt have ...
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... tion , sent up to their representatives . A more deplorable collection of follies can hardly be imagined . There is , in the first place , a general cry for Walpole's head . Then there are bitter complaints of the decay of trade , a ...
... tion , sent up to their representatives . A more deplorable collection of follies can hardly be imagined . There is , in the first place , a general cry for Walpole's head . Then there are bitter complaints of the decay of trade , a ...
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... tion , and had acquired considerable influence over the mind of George the First . The other Ministers could speak no German . The King could speak no English . All the com- munication that Walpole held with his master was in very bad ...
... tion , and had acquired considerable influence over the mind of George the First . The other Ministers could speak no German . The King could speak no English . All the com- munication that Walpole held with his master was in very bad ...
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... tion , he maintained that no peace ought to be made with Spain , till she should formally renounce the right of search . He was in the right when , being in office , he silently acquiesced in a treaty by which Spain did not renounce the ...
... tion , he maintained that no peace ought to be made with Spain , till she should formally renounce the right of search . He was in the right when , being in office , he silently acquiesced in a treaty by which Spain did not renounce the ...
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... tion of 1734 , his elder brother Thomas was chosen both for Old Sarum and for Oakhampton . When Parliament met in 1735 , Thomas made his election to serve for Oakhampton , and William was returned for Old Sarum . Walpole had now been ...
... tion of 1734 , his elder brother Thomas was chosen both for Old Sarum and for Oakhampton . When Parliament met in 1735 , Thomas made his election to serve for Oakhampton , and William was returned for Old Sarum . Walpole had now been ...
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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.