The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, Volume 6 |
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... object to the treaty with Spain , though that treaty left us exactly where we had been when he uttered his spirit - stir- ring harangues against the pacific policy of Walpole . Now and then glimpses of his former self appeared ; but ...
... object to the treaty with Spain , though that treaty left us exactly where we had been when he uttered his spirit - stir- ring harangues against the pacific policy of Walpole . Now and then glimpses of his former self appeared ; but ...
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... objects . Negotiations were opened with Fox . Newcastle behaved like himself , that is to say , childishly and basely . The proposition which he made was that Fox should be Secretary of State , with the lead of the House of Commons ...
... objects . Negotiations were opened with Fox . Newcastle behaved like himself , that is to say , childishly and basely . The proposition which he made was that Fox should be Secretary of State , with the lead of the House of Commons ...
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... object of the King was to secure Hanover ; and Newcastle was disposed to gratify his master . Treaties were concluded , after the fashion of those times , with several petty German princes , who bound themselves to find soldiers if ...
... object of the King was to secure Hanover ; and Newcastle was disposed to gratify his master . Treaties were concluded , after the fashion of those times , with several petty German princes , who bound themselves to find soldiers if ...
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... object of his ambition . The situation of Chief - Justice of the King's Bench was vacant ; and the Attorney - General was fully resolved to obtain it , or to go into Opposition . Newcastle offered him any terms , the Duchy of Lancaster ...
... object of his ambition . The situation of Chief - Justice of the King's Bench was vacant ; and the Attorney - General was fully resolved to obtain it , or to go into Opposition . Newcastle offered him any terms , the Duchy of Lancaster ...
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... objects of severe penal inflictions . But Byng was not found guilty of treachery , of cowardice , or of gross ignorance of his profession . He died for doing what the most loyal subject , the most intrepid warrior , the most experienced ...
... objects of severe penal inflictions . But Byng was not found guilty of treachery , of cowardice , or of gross ignorance of his profession . He died for doing what the most loyal subject , the most intrepid warrior , the most experienced ...
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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,...
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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...
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