Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 371
... mind , and now settled on it in thick darkness . From early youth he had been subject to fits of that strange melancholy " which rejoiceth ex- ceedingly and is glad when it can find the grave . " While still a writer at Madras , he had ...
... mind , and now settled on it in thick darkness . From early youth he had been subject to fits of that strange melancholy " which rejoiceth ex- ceedingly and is glad when it can find the grave . " While still a writer at Madras , he had ...
Page 490
... mind of Burke . After Pitt became minister , he had no leisure to learn more than was necessary for the purposes of the day which was passing over him . What was necessary for those purposes such a man could learn with little difficulty ...
... mind of Burke . After Pitt became minister , he had no leisure to learn more than was necessary for the purposes of the day which was passing over him . What was necessary for those purposes such a man could learn with little difficulty ...
Page 685
... mind , it is the sentiment of the English people on the subject of Reform . Accidental circumstances may have brought that feeling to maturity in a particular year , or a particular month . That point I will not dispute ; for it is not ...
... mind , it is the sentiment of the English people on the subject of Reform . Accidental circumstances may have brought that feeling to maturity in a particular year , or a particular month . That point I will not dispute ; for it is not ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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