Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To which is prefixed a short account of the life of the author, by R.H. Horne |
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... orators . His conversation in private is equally brilliant and instructive . Mr. Macaulay may fairly be regarded as the first critical and historical essayist of the time . It is not meant to be inferred that there are not other writers ...
... orators . His conversation in private is equally brilliant and instructive . Mr. Macaulay may fairly be regarded as the first critical and historical essayist of the time . It is not meant to be inferred that there are not other writers ...
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... orator with new topics of declamation , and the logician with new points of controversy . Above all , it introduced a new principle , of which the ope- ration was constantly felt in every part of society . It stirred the stagnant mass ...
... orator with new topics of declamation , and the logician with new points of controversy . Above all , it introduced a new principle , of which the ope- ration was constantly felt in every part of society . It stirred the stagnant mass ...
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... orator . There were gathered together , from all parts of a great , free , enlightened , and prosperous realm , grace and female loveliness , wit and learn- ing , the representatives of every science and of every 82 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANIES ...
... orator . There were gathered together , from all parts of a great , free , enlightened , and prosperous realm , grace and female loveliness , wit and learn- ing , the representatives of every science and of every 82 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANIES ...
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... orator , ancient or modern . There , with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke , appeared the finest gentleman of the age - his form developed by every manly exer- cise his face beaming with intelligence and spirit -the ingenious , the ...
... orator , ancient or modern . There , with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke , appeared the finest gentleman of the age - his form developed by every manly exer- cise his face beaming with intelligence and spirit -the ingenious , the ...
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... orator extorted expressions of unwonted admiration even from the stern and hostile Chancellor ; and , for a moment , seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant . The ladies in the galleries , un- accustomed to such ...
... orator extorted expressions of unwonted admiration even from the stern and hostile Chancellor ; and , for a moment , seemed to pierce even the resolute heart of the defendant . The ladies in the galleries , un- accustomed to such ...
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Página 82 - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great Hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the Just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
Página 56 - 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 21 - 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 29 - The sun illuminates the hills, while it is still below the horizon ; and truth is discovered by the highest minds a little before it becomes manifest to the multitude. This is the extent of their superiority. They are the first to catch and reflect a light, which, without their assistance, must, in a short time, be visible to those who lie far beneath them.
Página 42 - We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.
Página 86 - But those who, within the last ten years, have listened with delight, till the morning sun shone on the tapestries of the House of Lords, to the lofty and animated eloquence of Charles Earl Grey, are able to form some estimate of the powers of a race of men among whom he was not the foremost.
Página 43 - Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London...
Página 185 - ... thirdly, that he, during the year 1770, attended debates in the House of Lords, and took notes of speeches, particularly of the speeches of Lord Chatham; fourthly, that he bitterly resented the appointment of Mr. Chamier to the place of deputy secretary-at-war; fifthly, that he was bound by some strong tie to the first Lord Holland.
Página 88 - Great Britain in parliament assembled, whose parliamentary trust he has betrayed. " I impeach him in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonored.
Página 81 - Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when the foundations of our constitution were laid; or far away, over boundless seas and deserts, to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters, from right to left.