Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 277
... Opposition . The Tories furnished little more than rows of ponderous foxhunters , fat with Staffordshire or Devonshire ale , men who drank to the king over the water and believed that all the fundholders were Jews , men whose religion ...
... Opposition . The Tories furnished little more than rows of ponderous foxhunters , fat with Staffordshire or Devonshire ale , men who drank to the king over the water and believed that all the fundholders were Jews , men whose religion ...
Page 278
... Opposition the most distinguished were Lyttelton and Pitt . When Pitt entered Parliament , the whole political world was attentively watching the progress of an event which soon added great strength to the Opposition , and particularly ...
... Opposition the most distinguished were Lyttelton and Pitt . When Pitt entered Parliament , the whole political world was attentively watching the progress of an event which soon added great strength to the Opposition , and particularly ...
Page 727
... opposition among the natives to the change which I recom- mend , that opposition will be the effect of our own system . It will be headed by persons supported by our stipends and trained in our colleges . The longer we persevere in our ...
... opposition among the natives to the change which I recom- mend , that opposition will be the effect of our own system . It will be headed by persons supported by our stipends and trained in our colleges . The longer we persevere in our ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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