The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: Critical and historical essaysLongmans, Green, 1866 |
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... mind could have produced such literary luxuries as the works of Walpole . He was , unless we have formed a very erroneous judgment of his character , the most eccentric , the most artificial , the most fastidious , the most capricious ...
... mind could have produced such literary luxuries as the works of Walpole . He was , unless we have formed a very erroneous judgment of his character , the most eccentric , the most artificial , the most fastidious , the most capricious ...
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... mind of the reader constantly attentive , and constantly entertained . He had a strange ingenuity peculiarly his own , an ingenuity which appeared in all that he did , in his building , in his gar- dening , in his upholstery , in the ...
... mind of the reader constantly attentive , and constantly entertained . He had a strange ingenuity peculiarly his own , an ingenuity which appeared in all that he did , in his building , in his gar- dening , in his upholstery , in the ...
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... mind drunk with calumny and declamation . They had raised expectations which it was impossible to satisfy . The downfal of Walpole was to be the beginning of a political millennium ; and every enthusiast had figured to himself that ...
... mind drunk with calumny and declamation . They had raised expectations which it was impossible to satisfy . The downfal of Walpole was to be the beginning of a political millennium ; and every enthusiast had figured to himself that ...
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... mind to definite reforms which might have completed the work of the revolution , which might have brought the legislature into harmony with the nation , and which might have prevented the Crown from doing by influence what it could no ...
... mind to definite reforms which might have completed the work of the revolution , which might have brought the legislature into harmony with the nation , and which might have prevented the Crown from doing by influence what it could no ...
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... mind for an hour together ; and he overreached them all round . All If the country had remained at peace , it is not impossible that this man would have continued at the head of affairs without admitting any other person to a share of ...
... mind for an hour together ; and he overreached them all round . All If the country had remained at peace , it is not impossible that this man would have continued at the head of affairs without admitting any other person to a share of ...
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Página 242 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Página 106 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 606 - Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid.
Página 453 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 242 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Página 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Página 303 - A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 203 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 604 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, and imaginative mind.
Página 453 - She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world ; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all. She was great and respected before the Saxon had set foot on Britain, before the Frank had passed the Rhine, when Grecian eloquence still nourished in Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca.