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The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge , or the most in- significant name , than for the most important principle . ▸ From these considerations we infer , that no poet who should affect that metaphysical ...
The multitude is more easily interested for the most unmeaning badge , or the most in- significant name , than for the most important principle . ▸ From these considerations we infer , that no poet who should affect that metaphysical ...
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... to Charles I. shall appear to be justifiable or criminal . We shall there . fore make no apology for dedicating a few pages to the dis cussion of that interesting and most important question . We 34 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... to Charles I. shall appear to be justifiable or criminal . We shall there . fore make no apology for dedicating a few pages to the dis cussion of that interesting and most important question . We 34 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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cussion of that interesting and most important question . We shall not argue it on general grounds , we shall not recur to those primary principles from which the claim of any government to the obedience of its subjects is to be de- ...
cussion of that interesting and most important question . We shall not argue it on general grounds , we shall not recur to those primary principles from which the claim of any government to the obedience of its subjects is to be de- ...
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We cannot , in estimating the character of an individual , leave out of our consideration his conduct in the most important of all hu- man relations . And if in that relation we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful ...
We cannot , in estimating the character of an individual , leave out of our consideration his conduct in the most important of all hu- man relations . And if in that relation we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful ...
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These charges , were they infinitely more important , would not alter our opinion of an event , which alone has made us to differ from the slaves who crouch beneath the sceptres of Brandenburg and Braganza .
These charges , were they infinitely more important , would not alter our opinion of an event , which alone has made us to differ from the slaves who crouch beneath the sceptres of Brandenburg and Braganza .
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1843 |
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