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We have seen in our own time , great talents , intense labour , and long meditation , employed in this struggle against the spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say , absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble ...
We have seen in our own time , great talents , intense labour , and long meditation , employed in this struggle against the spirit of the age , and employed , we will not say , absolutely in vain , but with dubious success and feeble ...
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Then came those days , never to be recalled without a blush - the days of servitude without loyalty , and sensuality without love , of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices , the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds , the golden age ...
Then came those days , never to be recalled without a blush - the days of servitude without loyalty , and sensuality without love , of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices , the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds , the golden age ...
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We regret that a body , to whose courage and talents mankind has owed inestimable obligations , had not the lofty elegance which distinguished some of the adherents of Charles I. , or the easy good breeding for which the court of ...
We regret that a body , to whose courage and talents mankind has owed inestimable obligations , had not the lofty elegance which distinguished some of the adherents of Charles I. , or the easy good breeding for which the court of ...
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This digression will enable our readers to understand what we mean when we say that , in the Mandragola , Machiavelli has proved that he completely understood the nature of the dramatic art , and possessed talents which would have ...
This digression will enable our readers to understand what we mean when we say that , in the Mandragola , Machiavelli has proved that he completely understood the nature of the dramatic art , and possessed talents which would have ...
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The unhappy circumstances in which his country was placed , during the greater part of his public life , gave extraordinary encouragement to diplomatic talents . From the moment that Charles the Eighth descended from the Alps ...
The unhappy circumstances in which his country was placed , during the greater part of his public life , gave extraordinary encouragement to diplomatic talents . From the moment that Charles the Eighth descended from the Alps ...
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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.
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| Título | Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous [The modern British essayists] |
| Autor | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay |
| Editor | Phillips, Sampson, 1858 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 11 Oct. 2007 |
| Largo | 744 páginas |
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