The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volumen6Longmans, 1871 |
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... ON CHURCH AND STATE LORD CLIVE • VON RANKE LEIGH HUNT LORD HOLLAND . WARREN HASTINGS FREDERIC THE GREAT • PAGE 1 36 76 135 246 326 381 454 · 490 533 543 645 " CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.
... ON CHURCH AND STATE LORD CLIVE • VON RANKE LEIGH HUNT LORD HOLLAND . WARREN HASTINGS FREDERIC THE GREAT • PAGE 1 36 76 135 246 326 381 454 · 490 533 543 645 " CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.
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... Hastings , while Wedderburne was among the most unrelent- ing persecutors of that great though not faultless statesman . Clive spoke in his own defence at less length and with less art than in the preceding year , but with much energy ...
... Hastings , while Wedderburne was among the most unrelent- ing persecutors of that great though not faultless statesman . Clive spoke in his own defence at less length and with less art than in the preceding year , but with much energy ...
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... Hastings , first Governor - General of Bengal . Compiled from Original Papers , by the Rev. G. R. GLEIG , M.A. 3 vols . 8vo . London : 1841 . WE are inclined to think that we shall best meet the wishes of ... HASTINGS . 543 WARREN HASTINGS.
... Hastings , first Governor - General of Bengal . Compiled from Original Papers , by the Rev. G. R. GLEIG , M.A. 3 vols . 8vo . London : 1841 . WE are inclined to think that we shall best meet the wishes of ... HASTINGS . 543 WARREN HASTINGS.
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... Hastings sprang from an ancient and illustrious race . It has been affirmed that his pedigree can be traced back to the great Danish sea - king , whose sails were long the terror of both coasts of the British Channel , and who , after ...
... Hastings sprang from an ancient and illustrious race . It has been affirmed that his pedigree can be traced back to the great Danish sea - king , whose sails were long the terror of both coasts of the British Channel , and who , after ...
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... Hastings of Daylesford . This pur- pose , formed in infancy and poverty , grew stronger as his in- tellect expanded and as his fortune rose . He pursued his plan with that calm but indomitable force of will which was the most striking ...
... Hastings of Daylesford . This pur- pose , formed in infancy and poverty , grew stronger as his in- tellect expanded and as his fortune rose . He pursued his plan with that calm but indomitable force of will which was the most striking ...
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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.
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Página 242 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Página 442 - The maccaroni black-balled them as vulgar fellows. Writers the most unlike in sentiment and style — Methodists and libertines, philosophers and buffoons — were for once on the same side. It is hardly too much to say, that, during a space of about thirty years, the whole lighter literature of England was coloured by the feelings which we have described.
Página 168 - it is as true as a thing that God knoweth, that this great change hath wrought in me no other change towards your Lordship than this, that I may safely be that to you now which I was truly before.
Página 242 - Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.