Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousPhillips, Sampson,, 1858 - 744 páginas |
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... nation which have appeared in dark ages , we even when they fail , are entitled to praise . Their pupils , with far inferior intellectual powers , speedily surpass them in actual aitain- ments . Every girl , who has read Mrs. Marcet's ...
... nation which have appeared in dark ages , we even when they fail , are entitled to praise . Their pupils , with far inferior intellectual powers , speedily surpass them in actual aitain- ments . Every girl , who has read Mrs. Marcet's ...
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... nation is rendered formi- dable to its neighbours , and undervalue those which make it prosperous within itself . Nothing is raore remarkable in the political treatises of Machiavelli than the fairness of mind which they indicate . It ...
... nation is rendered formi- dable to its neighbours , and undervalue those which make it prosperous within itself . Nothing is raore remarkable in the political treatises of Machiavelli than the fairness of mind which they indicate . It ...
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... nations descend to the absurdi- ties of Egyptian idolatry , and worship stocks and reptiles Sacheverells and Wilkeses ... nation sacrificed to the juggles of Law ; if he had lived to see a dynasty of har lots , an empty treasury and a ...
... nations descend to the absurdi- ties of Egyptian idolatry , and worship stocks and reptiles Sacheverells and Wilkeses ... nation sacrificed to the juggles of Law ; if he had lived to see a dynasty of har lots , an empty treasury and a ...
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... nation which ought never to have cast him out , or never to have received him back . Every year which he had passed ... nations , and raised Louis the Fourteenth to a height of power and fame , such as no French sovereign had ever before ...
... nation which ought never to have cast him out , or never to have received him back . Every year which he had passed ... nations , and raised Louis the Fourteenth to a height of power and fame , such as no French sovereign had ever before ...
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... nation suscepti- ble , curious , lively , insatiably desirous of no- velty and excitement ; for a nation in which the fine arts had attained their highest excel- lence , but in which philosophy was still in its infancy . His countrymen ...
... nation suscepti- ble , curious , lively , insatiably desirous of no- velty and excitement ; for a nation in which the fine arts had attained their highest excel- lence , but in which philosophy was still in its infancy . His countrymen ...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous, Volumen1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1854 |
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Página 287 - We see in needle-works 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 doth best discover virtue.
Página 16 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands, their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Página 16 - He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.
Página 16 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men: the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker; but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Página 401 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.
Página 16 - They recognised no title to superiority but his favour; and confident of that favour, they despised all the accomplishments and all the dignities of the world. If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the Book of Life.
Página 16 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms.
Página 65 - He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice, which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of education, and to mark the progress of the human mind. Men will not merely be described, but will be made intimately known to us. The changes of manners will be indicated, not merely by a few general phrases, or a few extracts from statistical documents, but by appropriate images presented in every line.
Página 151 - Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, Gibbon tapping his snuff-box and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Página 16 - ... daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging in general terms an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul.