Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousPhilips, Sampson, and Company, 1859 - 744 páginas |
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... less is it thus with po The works , they acknowledge , considered in etry . The progress of refinement rarely sup themselves , may be classed among the noblest plies these arts with better objects of imitation . productions of the human ...
... less is it thus with po The works , they acknowledge , considered in etry . The progress of refinement rarely sup themselves , may be classed among the noblest plies these arts with better objects of imitation . productions of the human ...
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... less dangerous , was also to be avoided . The imaginations of men are in a great measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of a poetical colouring can produce no illusion when it is employed to represent that ...
... less dangerous , was also to be avoided . The imaginations of men are in a great measure under the control of their opinions . The most exquisite art of a poetical colouring can produce no illusion when it is employed to represent that ...
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... less striking , ac- cording as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interesting . But they are , almost without exception , dignified by a sobriety and greatness of mind to which we know not where to look for a ...
... less striking , ac- cording as the occasions which gave birth to them are more or less interesting . But they are , almost without exception , dignified by a sobriety and greatness of mind to which we know not where to look for a ...
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... less , and was neglected till it became really so . These tactics maintained their ground for cen- turies in most parts of Europe . That foot sol- diers could withstand the charge of heavy ca- valry was thought utterly impossible , till ...
... less , and was neglected till it became really so . These tactics maintained their ground for cen- turies in most parts of Europe . That foot sol- diers could withstand the charge of heavy ca- valry was thought utterly impossible , till ...
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... less comprehensive , but it had served to correct his speculations , and to ciple , that societies and laws exist only for the purpose of increasing the sum of private hap piness , is not recognised with sufficient clear- ness . good of ...
... less comprehensive , but it had served to correct his speculations , and to ciple , that societies and laws exist only for the purpose of increasing the sum of private hap piness , is not recognised with sufficient clear- ness . good of ...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous, Volumen1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1854 |
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Página 401 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church. The history of that Church joins together the two great ages of human civilization. No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre.
Página 12 - Oliver Cromwell, his bitterest enemies themselves being judges, destitute of private virtues? And what, after all, are the virtues ascribed to Charles? A religious zeal, not more sincere than that of his son, and fully as weak and narrowminded, and a few of the ordinary household decencies which half the tombstones in England claim for those who lie beneath them. A good father! A good husband! Ample apologies indeed for fifteen years of persecution, tyranny, and falsehood ! We charge him with having...
Página 287 - 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 where they are incensed or crushed : for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
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 16 - 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. The very meanest of them was a being to whose fate a mysterious...
Página 65 - The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is...
Página 278 - Ask a follower of Bacon what the new philosophy, as it was called in the time of Charles the Second, has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready; "It has lengthened life; it has mitigated pain ; it has extinguished diseases ; it has increased the fertility of the soil ; it has given new securities to the mariner ; it has furnished new arms to the warrior ; it has spanned great rivers and estuaries with bridges of form unknown to our fathers ; it has guided the thunderbolt innocuously from heaven...
Página 133 - Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos, for vehement exhortation, for subtle disquisition, for every purpose of the poet, the orator, and the divine, this homely dialect, the dialect of plain working men, was perfectly sufficient.
Página 115 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the people by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties ; by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment; by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the government dr this — the people will assuredly...
Página 38 - ... then, to be sure, in that scene, as you called it, between him and his mother, where you told me he acted so fine, why, Lord help me, any man, that is, any good man, that had such a mother, would have done exactly the same. I know you are only joking with me; but indeed, madam, though I was never at a play in London, yet I have seen acting before in the country; and the king for my money; he speaks all his words distinctly, half as loud again as the other.— Anybody may see he is an actor.