The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Volumen6Longmans, 1871 |
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... Opposition to the Tower was pre- served in times when a vote of the House of Commons was sufficient to hurl the most powerful minister from his post . The Government could not go on unless the Parliament could be kept in order . And how ...
... Opposition to the Tower was pre- served in times when a vote of the House of Commons was sufficient to hurl the most powerful minister from his post . The Government could not go on unless the Parliament could be kept in order . And how ...
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... opposition in the coun- try , in Parliament , and even in the royal closet . No person was more thoroughly convinced than he of the absurdity of the cry against Spain . But his darling power was at stake , and his choice was soon made ...
... opposition in the coun- try , in Parliament , and even in the royal closet . No person was more thoroughly convinced than he of the absurdity of the cry against Spain . But his darling power was at stake , and his choice was soon made ...
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... Opposition . He faced the increasing array of his enemies with unbroken spirit , and thought it far better that they should attack his power than that they should share it . The opposition was in every sense formidable . At its head ...
... Opposition . He faced the increasing array of his enemies with unbroken spirit , and thought it far better that they should attack his power than that they should share it . The opposition was in every sense formidable . At its head ...
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... opposition which , under pretence of assailing the existing administration , was in truth assailing the reigning dynasty . The young republican fresh from his Livy and his Lucan , and glowing with admiration of Hamp- den , of Russell ...
... opposition which , under pretence of assailing the existing administration , was in truth assailing the reigning dynasty . The young republican fresh from his Livy and his Lucan , and glowing with admiration of Hamp- den , of Russell ...
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... opposition . The only cry in which all could join was , " Down with Walpole ! " So much did they narrow the disputed ground , so purely personal did they make the question , that they threw out friendly hints to the other members of the ...
... opposition . The only cry in which all could join was , " Down with Walpole ! " So much did they narrow the disputed ground , so purely personal did they make the question , that they threw out friendly hints to the other members of the ...
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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.