Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 181
... close to Fort Lisset . The French , though an eminently brave people , have always been more liable to sudden panics than their phlegmatic neighbours the English and Germans . On this day there was a panic both in the fleet and in the ...
... close to Fort Lisset . The French , though an eminently brave people , have always been more liable to sudden panics than their phlegmatic neighbours the English and Germans . On this day there was a panic both in the fleet and in the ...
Page 190
... close up to them . Thus , gentlemen , thus . " " You might have seen him , ” - thus an eye witness wrote , only four days after the battle , - " with his sword in his hand , throwing himself upon the enemy . It is certain that one time ...
... close up to them . Thus , gentlemen , thus . " " You might have seen him , ” - thus an eye witness wrote , only four days after the battle , - " with his sword in his hand , throwing himself upon the enemy . It is certain that one time ...
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... close of the year 1773 , to Pembroke Hall , in the university of Cambridge . So young a student required much more than the ordinary care which a college tutor bestows on undergraduates . The governor , to whom the direction of ...
... close of the year 1773 , to Pembroke Hall , in the university of Cambridge . So young a student required much more than the ordinary care which a college tutor bestows on undergraduates . The governor , to whom the direction of ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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