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Yet we praise our forefathers , who preferred a revolution , a disputed suc- cession , a dynasty of strangers , twenty years of foreign and intestine war , a standing army , and a national debt , to the rule , however restricted , of a ...
Yet we praise our forefathers , who preferred a revolution , a disputed suc- cession , a dynasty of strangers , twenty years of foreign and intestine war , a standing army , and a national debt , to the rule , however restricted , of a ...
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They execrate the lawless violence of the army . They laugh at the scriptural names of the preachers . Major - generals fleecing their dis- tricts ; soldiers revelling on the spoils of a ruined peasantry ; upstarts , enriched by the ...
They execrate the lawless violence of the army . They laugh at the scriptural names of the preachers . Major - generals fleecing their dis- tricts ; soldiers revelling on the spoils of a ruined peasantry ; upstarts , enriched by the ...
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A newly- liberated people may be compared to a northern army en- camped on the Rhine or the Xeres . It is said that , when soldiers in such a situation first find themselves able to in- dulge without restraint in such a rare and ...
A newly- liberated people may be compared to a northern army en- camped on the Rhine or the Xeres . It is said that , when soldiers in such a situation first find themselves able to in- dulge without restraint in such a rare and ...
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To dis- charge cannon against an army in which a king is known to be posted , is to approach pretty near to regicide . Charles , too , it should always be remembered , was put to death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities ...
To dis- charge cannon against an army in which a king is known to be posted , is to approach pretty near to regicide . Charles , too , it should always be remembered , was put to death by men who had been exasperated by the hostilities ...
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We censure the chiefs of the army for not yield- ing 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 nave led ...
We censure the chiefs of the army for not yield- ing 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 nave led ...
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| Título | Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Thomas Carlyle Modern British essayists |
| Autor | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay |
| Editor | D. Appleton, 1860 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 24 Mayo 2017 |
| Largo | 568 páginas |
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