Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 1Dent, 1909 - 669 pages |
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... feeling , and profoundly well read in his own periods and his favourite literature , Macaulay has conferred most memorable services on the readers of English throughout the world . He stands between philosophic historians and the public ...
... feeling , and profoundly well read in his own periods and his favourite literature , Macaulay has conferred most memorable services on the readers of English throughout the world . He stands between philosophic historians and the public ...
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... feelings of this class is perfectly astonishing to us , and will , we believe , be not only astonishing but offensive to many of his readers . It must particularly disgust those people who , in their specula- tions on politics , are not ...
... feelings of this class is perfectly astonishing to us , and will , we believe , be not only astonishing but offensive to many of his readers . It must particularly disgust those people who , in their specula- tions on politics , are not ...
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... feeling should have met after so many years of oppression is truly wonderful . Hyde extols its loyal and conciliatory spirit . Its conduct , we are told , made the excellent Falkland in love with the very name of Parliament . We think ...
... feeling should have met after so many years of oppression is truly wonderful . Hyde extols its loyal and conciliatory spirit . Its conduct , we are told , made the excellent Falkland in love with the very name of Parliament . We think ...
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... feeling increased admiration of the patriotism , the energy , the decision , the con- summate wisdom , which marked the measures of that great Parliament , from the day on which it met to the commence- ment of civil hostilities . The ...
... feeling increased admiration of the patriotism , the energy , the decision , the con- summate wisdom , which marked the measures of that great Parliament , from the day on which it met to the commence- ment of civil hostilities . The ...
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... feeling in our own time will easily recall examples to illustrate this remark . English statesman ought to pay assiduous worship to Nemesis , to be most apprehensive of ruin when he is at the height of power and popularity , and to ...
... feeling in our own time will easily recall examples to illustrate this remark . English statesman ought to pay assiduous worship to Nemesis , to be most apprehensive of ruin when he is at the height of power and popularity , and to ...
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