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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems - Page 144
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...weakened or dissolved. Time glides by ; fortune is inconstant; tempers are soured; bonds which seemed affeci the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 422 pages
...affeet the silent eonverse whieh we hold with the highest of human intelleets. That plaeid intereourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faees, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in flory and in obseurity. With the dead there is...
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The British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, Volume 1

1862 - 492 pages
...weakened or dissolved. Time glides on ; fortune is inconsistent ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 554 pages
...weakened or dissolved. Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation,...the old friends who are never seen with new faces, Avho are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry....
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The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 6

Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 pages
...weakened or dissolved. Time glides on ; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by caprice. But no such cause can affect the silenl converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed...
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The Best Reading: Hints on the Selection of Books; on the Formation of ...

1872 - 368 pages
...weakened or dissolved; time glides on; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation,...intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. There are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty,...
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The Best Reading: Hints on the Selection of Books

1872 - 264 pages
...indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation, or by capriee. But no such cause can aifect the silent converse which we hold with the highest...intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. There are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty,...
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At Nightfall and Midnight: Musings After Dark

Francis Jacox - 1873 - 490 pages
...comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, and his placid intercourse with whom is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. " These...seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change....
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Materials and Models for Latin Prose Composition

John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 416 pages
...weakened or dissolved. Time glides on; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which sw.med indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation,...and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. Ill the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never...
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Materials and Models for Latin Prose Composition

John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 418 pages
...weakened or dissolved. Time glides on; fortune is inconstant ; tempers are soured ; bonds which seemed indissoluble are daily sundered by interest, by emulation,...old friends who are never seen with new faces, who arc the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry....
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