The Works of Lord Macaulay, Volumen7Longmans, Green and Company, 1898 Library has v. 1-6. |
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... possible that a people brought up under an intolerant and arbitrary system could subvert that system without acts of cruelty and folly , half the objections to despotic power would be removed . We should , in that case , be compelled to ...
... possible that a people brought up under an intolerant and arbitrary system could subvert that system without acts of cruelty and folly , half the objections to despotic power would be removed . We should , in that case , be compelled to ...
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... possible . We censure the chiefs of the army for not yielding to the popular opinion ; but we cannot censure Milton for wishing to change that opinion . The very feeling which would have restrained us from committing the act would have ...
... possible . We censure the chiefs of the army for not yielding to the popular opinion ; but we cannot censure Milton for wishing to change that opinion . The very feeling which would have restrained us from committing the act would have ...
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... possible for any person , not well acquainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement the cele- brated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a display of ...
... possible for any person , not well acquainted with the history and literature of Italy , to read without horror and amazement the cele- brated treatise which has brought so much obloquy on the name of Machiavelli . Such a display of ...
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... possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indicating that dis- simulation and treachery had ever struck him as . discreditable . After this , it may seem ridiculous to say that we are ...
... possible to find , in all the many volumes of his compositions , a single expression indicating that dis- simulation and treachery had ever struck him as . discreditable . After this , it may seem ridiculous to say that we are ...
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... possible to persuade or compel the Athenians to enlist for foreign service . The laws of Lycurgus prohibited trade and manufactures . The Spartans , therefore , continued to form a national force long after their neighbours had begun to ...
... possible to persuade or compel the Athenians to enlist for foreign service . The laws of Lycurgus prohibited trade and manufactures . The Spartans , therefore , continued to form a national force long after their neighbours had begun to ...
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Página 42 - Those who injured her during the period of her disguise were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she afterwards revealed herself in the beautiful and celestial form which was natural to her, accompanied their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love and victorious in war.
Página 60 - ... acquainted with the full power of the English language. They abound with passages compared with which the finest declamations of Burke sink into insignificance. They are a perfect field of cloth of gold. The style is stiff with gorgeous embroidery. Not even in the earlier books of the Paradise Lost has the great poet ever risen higher than in those parts of his controversial works in which his feelings, excited by conflict, find a vent in bursts of devotional and lyric rapture. It is, to borrow...
Página 17 - I should much commend the tragical part, if the lyrical did not ravish me with a certain Doric delicacy in your songs and odes, whereunto I must plainly confess to have seen yet nothing parallel in our language : Ipsa mollities.
Página 48 - 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 of the coward, the bigot, and the slave.
Página 61 - But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have proved pure, which have been weighed in the balance and have not been found wanting, which have been declared sterling by the general consent of mankind, and which are visibly stamped with the image and superscription of the Most High. These great men we trust that we know how to prize; and of these was Milton.
Página 42 - ... their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love, and victorious in war.* Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful, reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory...
Página 53 - He was half maddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels, or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him.
Página 218 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 437 - He judges of a theory, of a public measure, of a religion or a political party, of a peace or a war, as men judge of a picture or a statue, by the effect produced on his imagination. A chain of associations is to him what a chain of reasoning is to other men ; and what he calls his opinions are in fact merely his tastes.
Página 39 - ... that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him ! We censure him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Right, after having, for good and valuable consideration, promised to observe them ; and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning ! It is to such considerations as these, together with his Vandyke dress, his handsome face, and his peaked beard, that he owes, we verily believe, most of his popularity with the present generation.