Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousD. Appleton, 1861 - 744 páginas |
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... French Protestant . It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians of those times , that we must seek for the real explanation of what seems most mysterious in the life and writings of this remarkable man . As this ...
... French Protestant . It is , therefore , in the state of moral feeling among the Italians of those times , that we must seek for the real explanation of what seems most mysterious in the life and writings of this remarkable man . As this ...
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... French terval between the age of sublime invention stage resemble the waxen gentlemen and ladies in the window of a perfumer , rouged , curled , and bedizened , but fixed in such stiff attitudes , and staring with eyes expressive of ...
... French terval between the age of sublime invention stage resemble the waxen gentlemen and ladies in the window of a perfumer , rouged , curled , and bedizened , but fixed in such stiff attitudes , and staring with eyes expressive of ...
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... French manners fascinated him . With the political maxims and the so- cial habits of his favourite people , he adopted their taste in composition ; and , when seated on the throne , soon rendered it fashionable , partly by direct ...
... French manners fascinated him . With the political maxims and the so- cial habits of his favourite people , he adopted their taste in composition ; and , when seated on the throne , soon rendered it fashionable , partly by direct ...
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... French troops for a moment suspended their conflict , to drink of a stream which flowed between them . The shells were passed across from enemy to ene- my without apprehension or molestation . We , in the same manner , would rather ...
... French troops for a moment suspended their conflict , to drink of a stream which flowed between them . The shells were passed across from enemy to ene- my without apprehension or molestation . We , in the same manner , would rather ...
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... French cuirassiers as a pro- digy ; yet we read , without the least disgust , how Godfrey slew his thousands , and Rinaldo his ten thousands . Within the last hundred years stories about China and Bantam , which ough : not to have ...
... French cuirassiers as a pro- digy ; yet we read , without the least disgust , how Godfrey slew his thousands , and Rinaldo his ten thousands . Within the last hundred years stories about China and Bantam , which ough : not to have ...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous, Volumen1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Vista completa - 1854 |
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Página 16 - They recognised no title to superiority but his favour; and confident of that favour, they despised all the accomplishments and all the dignities of the world. If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the Book of Life.
Página 38 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything, for I know it is but a play; and, if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet, if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Página 249 - There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry arid pleased at his devotion.
Página 287 - We see in needle-works 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 when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 16 - Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting fire. Like Vane, he thought himself intrusted with the sceptre of the millennial year. Like Fleetwood, he cried in the bitterness of his soul that God had hid his face from him. But, when he took his seat in the council, or girt on his sword for war, these tempes.tuous workings of the soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People, who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their...
Página 117 - We reflect very complacently on our own severity, and compare with great pride the high standard of morals established in England with the Parisian laxity. At length our anger is satiated. Our victim is ruined and heart-broken. And our virtue goes quietly to sleep for seven years more.
Página 160 - His carriage," says Clarendon, "throughout that agitation, was with that rare temper and modesty, that they who watched him narrowly to find some advantage against his person, to make him less resolute in his cause, were compelled to give him a just testimony.
Página 147 - is a good man, a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the inside of a church for many years ; but he never passes a church without pulling off his hat : this shows he has good principles.
Página 144 - For if their condition was equally abject, their aspirings were not equally high, nor their sense of insult equally acute. To lodge in a garret up four pair of stairs, to dine in a cellar among footmen out of place, to translate ten hours a day for the wages of a ditcher, to be hunted by bailiffs from one haunt of beggary and pestilence to another, from Grub Street to St. George's Fields, and from St. George's Fields to the alleys behind St. Martin's church, to sleep on a bulk in June and amidst...
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 do this — the people will assuredly...