Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 51
... scarcely an exception , regarded the Indulgence as a violation of the laws of the realm , as a breach of the plighted faith of the King , and as a fatal blow levelled at the interest and dignity of their own profession , it will scarcely ...
... scarcely an exception , regarded the Indulgence as a violation of the laws of the realm , as a breach of the plighted faith of the King , and as a fatal blow levelled at the interest and dignity of their own profession , it will scarcely ...
Page 255
... scarcely yields to the account which Falstaff gives of his ducking . Two other comedies without titles , the one in prose , the other in verse , appear among the works of Machiavelli . The former is very short , lively enough , but of ...
... scarcely yields to the account which Falstaff gives of his ducking . Two other comedies without titles , the one in prose , the other in verse , appear among the works of Machiavelli . The former is very short , lively enough , but of ...
Page 586
... scarcely feel . Those tastes and propensities which belong to us as reasoning and imaginative beings are not indeed so easily gratified . There is , we admit , no point of saturation with objects of desire which come under this head ...
... scarcely feel . Those tastes and propensities which belong to us as reasoning and imaginative beings are not indeed so easily gratified . There is , we admit , no point of saturation with objects of desire which come under this head ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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