Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 216
... pounds . The heads of three noble houses took three thousand pounds each , the Duke of Hamilton , the Duke of Queensbury and Lord Belhaven , a man of ability , spirit and pat- riotism , who had entered into the design with enthusiasm ...
... pounds . The heads of three noble houses took three thousand pounds each , the Duke of Hamilton , the Duke of Queensbury and Lord Belhaven , a man of ability , spirit and pat- riotism , who had entered into the design with enthusiasm ...
Page 349
... pounds through the Dutch East India Company , and more than forty thousand pounds through the English Company . The amount which he had sent home through private houses was also considerable . He had in- vested great sums in jewels ...
... pounds through the Dutch East India Company , and more than forty thousand pounds through the English Company . The amount which he had sent home through private houses was also considerable . He had in- vested great sums in jewels ...
Page 737
... pounds . In reckoning the whole additional sum which the holders of his copy- rights would have taken out of the pockets of the public during the last half century at twenty thousand pounds , I feel satisfied that I very greatly ...
... pounds . In reckoning the whole additional sum which the holders of his copy- rights would have taken out of the pockets of the public during the last half century at twenty thousand pounds , I feel satisfied that I very greatly ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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