Macaulay: Prose and PoetryRupert Hart-Davis, 1952 - 864 pages |
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... turned round and declared that good republicans were absolved from all engagements to a leader who had so shamefully broken faith . In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues . On the day ...
... turned round and declared that good republicans were absolved from all engagements to a leader who had so shamefully broken faith . In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues . On the day ...
Page 274
... turned their eyes . Four years before he had been driven from power by the intrigues of Sunderland and Stanhope , and the lead in the House of Commons had been intrusted to Craggs and Aislabie . Stanhope was no more . Aislabie was ...
... turned their eyes . Four years before he had been driven from power by the intrigues of Sunderland and Stanhope , and the lead in the House of Commons had been intrusted to Craggs and Aislabie . Stanhope was no more . Aislabie was ...
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... turned the blow . The blow , though turned , came yet too nigh ; It missed his helm , but gashed his thigh : The Tuscans raised a joyful cry To see the red blood flow . 45 He reeled , and on Herminius He leaned one HORATIUS 817.
... turned the blow . The blow , though turned , came yet too nigh ; It missed his helm , but gashed his thigh : The Tuscans raised a joyful cry To see the red blood flow . 45 He reeled , and on Herminius He leaned one HORATIUS 817.
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND SELECTED PASSAGES II | 13 |
ESSAYS | 233 |
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