Macaulay's Essay on Lord CliveMacmillan, 1902 - 186 pages |
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... volume ) , Miss Edgeworth , Mackenzie's Lounger and Mirror , and as a standing dish , the Quarterly and the Edinburgh Reviews . Poets , too , especially Scott and Crabbe , were constantly chosen . " Mrs. Macaulay must have been an ...
... volume ) , Miss Edgeworth , Mackenzie's Lounger and Mirror , and as a standing dish , the Quarterly and the Edinburgh Reviews . Poets , too , especially Scott and Crabbe , were constantly chosen . " Mrs. Macaulay must have been an ...
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... volumes of Voltaire , Sismondi's History of France , and the seven thick folios of the Biographia Britannica . " On his return voyage , in 1837 , he pro- vided himself with the complete works of Goethe and Schiller , Muller's History of ...
... volumes of Voltaire , Sismondi's History of France , and the seven thick folios of the Biographia Britannica . " On his return voyage , in 1837 , he pro- vided himself with the complete works of Goethe and Schiller , Muller's History of ...
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... volume of the Chatham Cor- respondence has not , I think , been reviewed . It will furnish a heading for the article . " In his later years , Macaulay sent five articles to the Encyclopędia Britannica . The titles of these will be found ...
... volume of the Chatham Cor- respondence has not , I think , been reviewed . It will furnish a heading for the article . " In his later years , Macaulay sent five articles to the Encyclopędia Britannica . The titles of these will be found ...
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... . . . from the Revolution to the Accession of the House of Hanover , " but the death of William III ( March 8 , 1702 ) is the last event it records . The first and second volumes were published in 1848 , and were INTRODUCTION xvii.
... . . . from the Revolution to the Accession of the House of Hanover , " but the death of William III ( March 8 , 1702 ) is the last event it records . The first and second volumes were published in 1848 , and were INTRODUCTION xvii.
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... volumes appeared late in 1855 , and the edition of twenty - five thousand copies was sold by advance orders before publication . Few works were ever more popular . The fifth and last volume was published after his death . The History ...
... volumes appeared late in 1855 , and the edition of twenty - five thousand copies was sold by advance orders before publication . Few works were ever more popular . The fifth and last volume was published after his death . The History ...
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Page 157 - Witch. When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
Page 179 - Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not ; and dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
Page 54 - Even for a single European malefactor, that dungeon would, in such a climate, have been too close and narrow. The space was only twenty feet square. The air-holes were small and obstructed. It was the summer solstice, the season when the fierce heat of Bengal can scarcely be rendered tolerable to natives of England by lofty halls and by the constant waving of fans.
Page 68 - ... to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his own. Before him lay a river over which it was easy to advance, but over which, if things went ill, not one of his little band would ever return. On this occasion, for the first and for the last time, his dauntless spirit, during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council of war. The majority pronounced against fighting, and Clive declared his concurrence with the majority. Long...
Page lxiii - THE poesy of this young Lord belongs to the class which neither gods nor men are said to permit. Indeed, we do not recollect to have seen a quantity of verse with so few deviations in either direction from that exact standard. His effusions are spread over a dead flat, and can no more get above or below the level, than if they Were so much stagnant water. As an extenuation...
Page 54 - When they were ordered to enter the cell, they imagined that the soldiers were joking ; and, being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and the door was instantly shut and locked upon them.
Page 32 - ... 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 68 - ... it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his own. Before him lay a river over which it was easy to advance, but over which, if things went ill, not one of his little band would ever return.
Page 69 - ... if he had taken the advice of that council, the British would never have been masters of Bengal. But scarcely had the meeting broken up when he was himself again. He retired alone under the shade of some trees, and passed near an hour there in thought. He came back determined to put everything to the hazard, and gave orders that all should be in readiness for passing the river on the morrow.