Essays on Milton and AddisonBenj. H. Sanborn & Company, 1902 - 315 páginas |
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... Parliament . 66 Macaulay was now a lion of the day , courted and ad- mired by the social and political celebrities of London ; and his wide reading , his phenomenal memory , his bril- liant conversation , sparkling with spoils from many ...
... Parliament . 66 Macaulay was now a lion of the day , courted and ad- mired by the social and political celebrities of London ; and his wide reading , his phenomenal memory , his bril- liant conversation , sparkling with spoils from many ...
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... his completing it . In 1839 , shortly after his return from India , he was elected a member of Parliament for Edinburgh , and in September of the same year was given a seat in the Cabinet as Secretary at War INTRODUCTION . xiii.
... his completing it . In 1839 , shortly after his return from India , he was elected a member of Parliament for Edinburgh , and in September of the same year was given a seat in the Cabinet as Secretary at War INTRODUCTION . xiii.
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... Parliamentary elections . This , though he was afterwards returned to Parliament by Edinburgh , was the real end of his politi- cal career . Nor did he regret it ; for it gave him much more time to work on the subject that was now ...
... Parliamentary elections . This , though he was afterwards returned to Parliament by Edinburgh , was the real end of his politi- cal career . Nor did he regret it ; for it gave him much more time to work on the subject that was now ...
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... Parliament , and promised himself the rest and quiet he had so truly earned by his life of almost ceaseless mental labor . Lord Palmerston , in 1857 , created him a peer , and he took the title of Baron Macaulay of Rothley . His last ...
... Parliament , and promised himself the rest and quiet he had so truly earned by his life of almost ceaseless mental labor . Lord Palmerston , in 1857 , created him a peer , and he took the title of Baron Macaulay of Rothley . His last ...
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... Parliament , and had de- cided to do without its assistance , and to take over the entire government into his own hands . Laud and Strafford were his advisers and his tools ; and the High Church and ritualistic doctrines of the one ...
... Parliament , and had de- cided to do without its assistance , and to take over the entire government into his own hands . Laud and Strafford were his advisers and his tools ; and the High Church and ritualistic doctrines of the one ...
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Página 79 - 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 289 - Inspired repulsed battalions to engage, And taught the doubtful battle where to rage. So when an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia...
Página 81 - Such we believe to have been the character of the Puritans. We perceive the absurdity of their manners. We dislike the sullen gloom of their domestic habits. We acknowledge that the tone of their minds was often injured by straining after things too high for mortal reach ; and we know that, in spite of their hatred of popery, they too often fell into the worst vices of that bad system, intolerance and extravagant austerity, that they had their anchorites and their crusades, their Dunstans and their...
Página 93 - 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 80 - These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures...
Página 63 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.
Página 78 - ... 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 and terrible importance belonged, on whose slightest action the spirits of light and darkness looked with anxious interest, who had been destined before heaven and earth were created to enjoy a felicity which should continue when heaven and earth should...
Página 88 - ... be emancipated from the dominion of prejudice as well as from that of Charles. He knew that those who, with the best intentions, overlooked these schemes of reform, and contented themselves with pulling down the King and imprisoning the...
Página 77 - The difference between the greatest and the meanest of mankind seemed to vanish, when compared with the boundless interval which separated the whole race from Him on whom their own eyes were constantly fixed.
Página 78 - 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.