The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volume 6Longmans, 1871 |
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... principles of toleration , the English respect for personal liberty , the English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good , were making rapid progress . There is scarcely any thing in history so interesting as that great ...
... principles of toleration , the English respect for personal liberty , the English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good , were making rapid progress . There is scarcely any thing in history so interesting as that great ...
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... principle which may be traced in every part , and which gave combination and consistency to the whole ? Yes , and that principle was , The Love of PEACE . " It would be difficult , we think , to bestow a higher eulogium on any statesman ...
... principle which may be traced in every part , and which gave combination and consistency to the whole ? Yes , and that principle was , The Love of PEACE . " It would be difficult , we think , to bestow a higher eulogium on any statesman ...
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... principle to which all his 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 ...
... principle to which all his 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 ...
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... principles of good government against Walpole , and for Walpole against the opposition . It was most desirable that a purer system should be introduced ; but , if the old system was to be retained , no man was so fit as Walpole to be at ...
... principles of good government against Walpole , and for Walpole against the opposition . It was most desirable that a purer system should be introduced ; but , if the old system was to be retained , no man was so fit as Walpole to be at ...
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... principles of the Revolution , and which exclusively enjoyed the confidence of the reigning house , had been united in support of his ad- ministration . Happily for him , he had been out of office when the South - Sea Act was passed ...
... principles of the Revolution , and which exclusively enjoyed the confidence of the reigning house , had been united in support of his ad- ministration . Happily for him , he had been out of office when the South - Sea Act was passed ...
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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.