The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay: Contributions to Knight's quarterly magazine. Contributions to the Edinburgh reviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... evil , and flogged me as if he thought So. At last one day , in the middle of a lecture , I set fire to his enormous filthy beard , singed his face , and sent him roaring out of the house . There ended my studies . From that time to ...
... evil , and flogged me as if he thought So. At last one day , in the middle of a lecture , I set fire to his enormous filthy beard , singed his face , and sent him roaring out of the house . There ended my studies . From that time to ...
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... powerful for evil , and equally impotent for good . I might speak of the attacks by which it attempted to depress the rising fame - of Corneille ; I might speak of the reluctance with 22 ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE .
... powerful for evil , and equally impotent for good . I might speak of the attacks by which it attempted to depress the rising fame - of Corneille ; I might speak of the reluctance with 22 ON THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE .
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... evil . They are men whose lands are poor , and have never yielded them any returns equal to the prizes which the king proposed . Wherefore , knowing that the lords of the fruitful vineyards would not enter into competition with them ...
... evil . They are men whose lands are poor , and have never yielded them any returns equal to the prizes which the king proposed . Wherefore , knowing that the lords of the fruitful vineyards would not enter into competition with them ...
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... evil of which I speak was not confined to the graver poets . It infected satire , comedy , burlesque . No person can admire more than I do the great master- pieces of wit and humour which Italy has produced . Still I cannot but discern ...
... evil of which I speak was not confined to the graver poets . It infected satire , comedy , burlesque . No person can admire more than I do the great master- pieces of wit and humour which Italy has produced . Still I cannot but discern ...
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... evil ; but it calls forth that activity of mind which in some states of society it is de- sirable to produce at any expense . Universal soldiership may be an evil ; but where every man is a soldier there will be no standing army . And ...
... evil ; but it calls forth that activity of mind which in some states of society it is de- sirable to produce at any expense . Universal soldiership may be an evil ; but where every man is a soldier there will be no standing army . And ...
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