Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 624
... course in looking first for the true idéa , or abstract conception of a government , of course with allowance for the evil and frailty that are in man , and then in examining whether there be comprised in that idéa a capacity and ...
... course in looking first for the true idéa , or abstract conception of a government , of course with allowance for the evil and frailty that are in man , and then in examining whether there be comprised in that idéa a capacity and ...
Page 707
... course which the late ministers designed to take . They would have left the Company in possession of the means of carrying on its trade in competition with private mer- chants . My firm belief is that , if this course had been taken ...
... course which the late ministers designed to take . They would have left the Company in possession of the means of carrying on its trade in competition with private mer- chants . My firm belief is that , if this course had been taken ...
Page 794
... course would have been to apply for an Act of Parliament . On what ground ? Nothing but an Act of Parliament can legalise that which is illegal . But whoever heard of an Act of Parliament to legalise what was already beyond all dispute ...
... course would have been to apply for an Act of Parliament . On what ground ? Nothing but an Act of Parliament can legalise that which is illegal . But whoever heard of an Act of Parliament to legalise what was already beyond all dispute ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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