The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 6 |
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Page 72
... authority of the East India Company was more absolute than that of Acbar or Aurungzebe had ever been . On the Continent of Europe the odds were against England . We had but one important ally , the King of Prussia ; and he was attacked ...
... authority of the East India Company was more absolute than that of Acbar or Aurungzebe had ever been . On the Continent of Europe the odds were against England . We had but one important ally , the King of Prussia ; and he was attacked ...
Page 78
... authority for an expression . He declared that he would use no word which was not to be found in Dryden . In any other person we should have called this solicitude mere foppery ; and , in spite of all our admiration for Mr. Fox , we ...
... authority for an expression . He declared that he would use no word which was not to be found in Dryden . In any other person we should have called this solicitude mere foppery ; and , in spite of all our admiration for Mr. Fox , we ...
Page 82
... authority of the law , or showed his ingenuity by refining away its enactments . On every occa- sion he showed himself firm where principles were in question , but full of charity towards individuals . We have no hesitation in ...
... authority of the law , or showed his ingenuity by refining away its enactments . On every occa- sion he showed himself firm where principles were in question , but full of charity towards individuals . We have no hesitation in ...
Page 88
... authority of governments . He , like almost every other honest and enlightened man , was discouraged and perplexed by the ter- rible events which followed . Yet he never in the most gloomy times abandoned the cause of peace , of liberty ...
... authority of governments . He , like almost every other honest and enlightened man , was discouraged and perplexed by the ter- rible events which followed . Yet he never in the most gloomy times abandoned the cause of peace , of liberty ...
Page 101
... authority , the estates of the Peers would have been as much at his mercy as those of the merchants or the farmers . If he had obtained the power of imprisoning his subjects at his pleasure , a Peer ran far greater risk of incurring the ...
... authority , the estates of the Peers would have been as much at his mercy as those of the merchants or the farmers . If he had obtained the power of imprisoning his subjects at his pleasure , a Peer ran far greater risk of incurring the ...
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Page 242 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 106 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 242 - Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity...
Page 242 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Page 630 - Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music,...
Page 629 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Page 316 - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
Page 630 - ... too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacockhangings of Mrs.
Page 628 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
Page 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...