Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 124
... letter which the Commissioners had brought was drawn up by a secretary in diplomatic form and in the French language . " I have had many letters from the King , " said William , " but they were all in English , and in his own hand ...
... letter which the Commissioners had brought was drawn up by a secretary in diplomatic form and in the French language . " I have had many letters from the King , " said William , " but they were all in English , and in his own hand ...
Page 397
... letters . The argument from inferiority , at all events , is one which may be urged with at least equal force against every claimant that has ever been mentioned , with the single exception of Burke : and it would be a waste of time to ...
... letters . The argument from inferiority , at all events , is one which may be urged with at least equal force against every claimant that has ever been mentioned , with the single exception of Burke : and it would be a waste of time to ...
Page 398
... letters which , under various signatures , are known to have been written by Junius , and from his dealings with Woodfall and others , to form a tolerably correct notion of his character . He was clearly a man not destitute of real ...
... letters which , under various signatures , are known to have been written by Junius , and from his dealings with Woodfall and others , to form a tolerably correct notion of his character . He was clearly a man not destitute of real ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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