The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 6Longmans, 1871 |
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... church feeling which the foolish prosecution of a foolish parson had occasioned in the days of Queen Anne . If the Dissenters had been turbulent he would probably have relieved them but while he apprehended no danger from them , he ...
... church feeling which the foolish prosecution of a foolish parson had occasioned in the days of Queen Anne . If the Dissenters had been turbulent he would probably have relieved them but while he apprehended no danger from them , he ...
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... Church and the landed interest , and who , if they were not inclined to attack the reigning family , yet considered the introduction of that family as , at best , only the less of two great evils , as a necessary but painful and ...
... Church and the landed interest , and who , if they were not inclined to attack the reigning family , yet considered the introduction of that family as , at best , only the less of two great evils , as a necessary but painful and ...
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... Church was drowsy and indulgent . The great civil and religious conflict which began at the Reformation seemed to have terminated in universal repose . Whigs and Tories , Churchmen and Puritans , spoke with equal reverence of the ...
... Church was drowsy and indulgent . The great civil and religious conflict which began at the Reformation seemed to have terminated in universal repose . Whigs and Tories , Churchmen and Puritans , spoke with equal reverence of the ...
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... Church of Rome . the other side is the sciolist who speaks with scorn of the Great Charter , because it did not reform the Church ; of the Reformation , because it did not limit the prerogative ; and of the Revolution , because it did ...
... Church of Rome . the other side is the sciolist who speaks with scorn of the Great Charter , because it did not reform the Church ; of the Reformation , because it did not limit the prerogative ; and of the Revolution , because it did ...
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... church which glories in the relics of some martyred apostle . Because he was merciful , his bones give security to assassins . Because he was chaste , the precinct of his temple is filled with licensed stews . Privileges of an equally ...
... church which glories in the relics of some martyred apostle . Because he was merciful , his bones give security to assassins . Because he was chaste , the precinct of his temple is filled with licensed stews . Privileges of an equally ...
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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 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 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 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Page 524 - So spake the Cherub : and his grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible : Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw, and pined His loss ; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impair'd ; yet seem'd Undaunted.
Page 242 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Page 442 - The maccaroni black-balled them as vulgar fellows. Writers the most unlike in sentiment and style — Methodists and libertines, philosophers and buffoons — were for once on the same side. It is hardly too much to say, that, during a space of about thirty years, the whole lighter literature of England was coloured by the feelings which we have described.
Page 168 - it is as true as a thing that God knoweth, that this great change hath wrought in me no other change towards your Lordship than this, that I may safely be that to you now which I was truly before.
Page 242 - Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.