Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 359
... authority over the army , he was equally successful in his foreign policy . His landing on Indian ground was the signal for immediate peace . The Nabob of Oude , with a large army , lay at that time on the frontier of Bahar . He had ...
... authority over the army , he was equally successful in his foreign policy . His landing on Indian ground was the signal for immediate peace . The Nabob of Oude , with a large army , lay at that time on the frontier of Bahar . He had ...
Page 402
... authority in England . If that authority took part with his enemies , nothing was left to him but to throw up his office . He accordingly placed his resignation in the hands of his agent in London , Colonel Macleane . But Macleane was ...
... authority in England . If that authority took part with his enemies , nothing was left to him but to throw up his office . He accordingly placed his resignation in the hands of his agent in London , Colonel Macleane . But Macleane was ...
Page 643
... authority ; of authority equally reasonable and equally true , whether we will hear , or whether we will forbear . " Mr. Gladstone's reasoning is not so clear as might be desired . We have among us , he says , ordained hereditary ...
... authority ; of authority equally reasonable and equally true , whether we will hear , or whether we will forbear . " Mr. Gladstone's reasoning is not so clear as might be desired . We have among us , he says , ordained hereditary ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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