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" ... made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes. And in his high place he had so borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory except virtue.... "
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 125
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860
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JOURNEYS

CHARLES H. SYLVESTER CHROUGH BOOKLAND - 1922 - 530 pages
...most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person...it indicated deference to the court, indicated also 19. Samuel Parr (1747-1825), a once noted English scholar.' 20. This was Mrs. Fitzherbert, whom the...
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The Great Historians

Kenneth Norman Bell, Gladys M. Morgan - 1925 - 380 pages
...most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person...was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council -chamber at Calcutta, Mens aqua in arduis ; such was the aspect with which the great proconsul...
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A Grammar of Late Modern English: For the Use of ..., Volume 1, Part 1

Hendrik Poutsma - 1928 - 570 pages
...following passage taken from the literary products of Macaulay, that master of noble English prose: A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity...inflexible decision; a face, pale and worn, but serene, H. POUTSMA, 1 1. 32 on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at...
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Anglia, Volumes 42-43

1918 - 868 pages
...gegensätzliche vergleichung, doch fehlt hier das zeitliche moment). Ebenso Macaulay. Warren Hastings. A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity...indicated also habitual selfpossession and self-respect. Doch Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress anfang. As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 40; Volumes 74-75

1842 - 576 pages
...most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person...serene, on which was written, as legibly as under the great picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Mens tequa in arduis ; — such was the aspect with...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art, Volume 44

1842 - 574 pages
...that most had loved him, and that hatred itself deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person...forehead; — a brow pensive, but not gloomy; — a month of inflexible decision ; — a face pale and worn, but serene, on which was written, as legibly...
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McGuffey's New 4th, 6th, Eclectic Reader, Volume 6

William Holmes McGuffey - 1867 - 466 pages
...him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. A person, small and +emaciated, yet deriving dignity..."'"inflexible decision ; a face, pale and worn, but on which a great and well-balanced mind was legibly written : such formed the aspect with which the...
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Warren Hastings: King of the Nabobs

Michael Edwardes - 1976 - 228 pages
...had loved him, and that hatred 5 itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person...also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a 10 high and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not gloomy, a mouth of inflexible decision,...
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A Grammar of Late Modern English, Volume 1, Part 1, Issue 1

Hendrik Poutsma - 1928 - 566 pages
...court. Indicated also habitual self- possession and self-respect; a high and Intellectual forehead, > brow pensive, but not gloomy ; a mouth of Inflexible decision ; a face, pale and worn, but serene. H. POUTSMA.IL 32 on which was written, as legibly as under the picture In Hie council-chamber at Calcutta,...
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