Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 272
... means of public opinion , what no other statesman of his day thought it possible to do , except by means of corruption , that he looked for support , not , like the Pelhams , to a strong aristocratical connexion , not , like Bute , to ...
... means of public opinion , what no other statesman of his day thought it possible to do , except by means of corruption , that he looked for support , not , like the Pelhams , to a strong aristocratical connexion , not , like Bute , to ...
Page 781
... means , Government must protect our persons and pro- perty . If you take away education , what means do you leave ? You leave means such as only necessity can justify , means which inflict a fearful amount of pain , not only on the ...
... means , Government must protect our persons and pro- perty . If you take away education , what means do you leave ? You leave means such as only necessity can justify , means which inflict a fearful amount of pain , not only on the ...
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... means , but the best means , of attaining that which all allow to be a chief end of government ; and , if this be so , it passes my faculties to understand how any man can gravely contend that Government has nothing to do with the ...
... means , but the best means , of attaining that which all allow to be a chief end of government ; and , if this be so , it passes my faculties to understand how any man can gravely contend that Government has nothing to do with the ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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