Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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Page 435
... tion by which justice was dispensed , revenue collected , peace maintained , throughout a territory not inferior in population to the dominions of Louis the Sixteenth or of the Emperor Joseph , was formed and superintended by him . He ...
... tion by which justice was dispensed , revenue collected , peace maintained , throughout a territory not inferior in population to the dominions of Louis the Sixteenth or of the Emperor Joseph , was formed and superintended by him . He ...
Page 771
... tion keeps the public feeling in a right state , and thus protects indirectly those whom it cannot protect directly . Will my honorable friend the Member for Sheffield maintain that the law which limits the number of working days has ...
... tion keeps the public feeling in a right state , and thus protects indirectly those whom it cannot protect directly . Will my honorable friend the Member for Sheffield maintain that the law which limits the number of working days has ...
Page 773
... tion which my honorable friend thinks so complete ; and what the flaw is we may perhaps discover if we look at the analogous case to which I have so often referred . Sir , exactly three hundred years ago , great religious changes were ...
... tion which my honorable friend thinks so complete ; and what the flaw is we may perhaps discover if we look at the analogous case to which I have so often referred . Sir , exactly three hundred years ago , great religious changes were ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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