The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volumen6Longmans, 1871 |
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... kings as kings , and a foolish love and admiration of rebels as rebels : and perhaps , while kings were not in ... king . " He hung up in his villa an engraving of the death- warrant of Charles , with the inscription " Major Charta ...
... kings as kings , and a foolish love and admiration of rebels as rebels : and perhaps , while kings were not in ... king . " He hung up in his villa an engraving of the death- warrant of Charles , with the inscription " Major Charta ...
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... kings very bitterly , before he can think it desirable that the representatives of the people should be turned out of doors by dragoons , in order to get at a king's head . Wal- pole's Whiggism , however , was of a very harmless kind ...
... kings very bitterly , before he can think it desirable that the representatives of the people should be turned out of doors by dragoons , in order to get at a king's head . Wal- pole's Whiggism , however , was of a very harmless kind ...
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... king , or God . A fanatic of another kind might see nothing in the doctrines of the philosophers but anarchy and ... king to parliament , and from parliament to king , during the wars of the Fronde . These were the people of whom he ...
... king , or God . A fanatic of another kind might see nothing in the doctrines of the philosophers but anarchy and ... king to parliament , and from parliament to king , during the wars of the Fronde . These were the people of whom he ...
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... King could speak no English . All the com- munication that Walpole held with his master was in very bad Latin . Carteret dismayed his colleagues by the volu- bility with which he addressed his Majesty in German . They listened with envy ...
... King could speak no English . All the com- munication that Walpole held with his master was in very bad Latin . Carteret dismayed his colleagues by the volu- bility with which he addressed his Majesty in German . They listened with envy ...
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... King himself in maintaining the Act of Settlement , and that , instead of serving the pur- poses of the Tory party , they had brought that party over to the side of Whiggism . It must indeed be admitted that , though both the King and ...
... King himself in maintaining the Act of Settlement , and that , instead of serving the pur- poses of the Tory party , they had brought that party over to the side of Whiggism . It must indeed be admitted that , though both the King and ...
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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 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 620 - India and its inhabitants were not to him, as to most Englishmen, mere names and abstractions, but a real country and a real people. The burning sun, the strange vegetation of the palm and the...
Página 122 - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...
Página 524 - So spake the Cherub : and his grave rebuke, Severe in youthful beauty, added grace Invincible : Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is, and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw, and pined His loss ; but chiefly to find here observed His lustre visibly impair'd ; yet seem'd Undaunted.
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.