Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 263
... political philosophers . Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim . If it be very moral and very true , it may serve for a copy to a charity - boy . If , like those of Rochefoucault , it be ...
... political philosophers . Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim . If it be very moral and very true , it may serve for a copy to a charity - boy . If , like those of Rochefoucault , it be ...
Page 289
... political school , in a school , the doctrines of which were , that political virtue is the mere coquetry of political prostitution , that every patriot has his price , that government can be carried on only by means of corruption , and ...
... political school , in a school , the doctrines of which were , that political virtue is the mere coquetry of political prostitution , that every patriot has his price , that government can be carried on only by means of corruption , and ...
Page 692
... political functions of the Company were merely auxiliary to its commerce , the political accounts should have been mixed up with the commercial accounts . It was equally natural that this mode of keeping accounts , having once been ...
... political functions of the Company were merely auxiliary to its commerce , the political accounts should have been mixed up with the commercial accounts . It was equally natural that this mode of keeping accounts , having once been ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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