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At length circumstances compelled Charles to summon another Parliament : another chance was given them for liberty . Were they to throw it away as they had thrown away the former ? Were they again to be cozened by le Roi le veut ?
At length circumstances compelled Charles to summon another Parliament : another chance was given them for liberty . Were they to throw it away as they had thrown away the former ? Were they again to be cozened by le Roi le veut ?
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And if , in that relation , we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and all his regularity at chapel .
And if , in that relation , we find him to have been selfish , cruel , and deceitful , we shall take the liberty to call him a bad man , in spite of all his temperance at table , and all his regularity at chapel .
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They were the price of our liberty . Has the acquisition been worth the sacrifice ? It is the nature of the Devil of tyranny to tear and rend the body which he leaves . Are the miseries of continued possession less horrible than the ...
They were the price of our liberty . Has the acquisition been worth the sacrifice ? It is the nature of the Devil of tyranny to tear and rend the body which he leaves . Are the miseries of continued possession less horrible than the ...
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In the same manner , the final and permanent fruits of liberty are wisdom , moderation , and mercy . Its immediate effects are often atrocious crimes , conflicting errors , skepticism on points the most clear , dog . matism on points ...
In the same manner , the final and permanent fruits of liberty are wisdom , moderation , and mercy . Its immediate effects are often atrocious crimes , conflicting errors , skepticism on points the most clear , dog . matism on points ...
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Such a spirit is Liberty . At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile ? She grovels , she hisses , she stings . But woe to those who in disgustika shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who , having dared to receive her ...
Such a spirit is Liberty . At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile ? She grovels , she hisses , she stings . But woe to those who in disgustika shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who , having dared to receive her ...
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Página 56 - Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom.
Página 137 - Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer; "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure if I had seen a ghost I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
Página 37 - the poet should have secured the consistency of his system by keeping immateriality out of sight, and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts.
Página 31 - And drenches with Elysian dew (List, mortals, if your ears be true) Beds of hyacinth and roses, Where young Adonis oft reposes, Waxing well of his deep wound, In slumber soft, and on the ground Sadly sits the Assyrian queen.
Página 449 - Flemish Count is slain; Their ranks are breaking like thin clouds before a Biscay gale; The field is heaped with bleeding steeds, and flags and cloven mail. And then we thought on vengeance, and all along our van, "Remember St. Bartholomew," was passed from man to man: But out spake gentle Henry then, "No Frenchman is my foe; Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go.
Página 31 - But now my task is smoothly done: I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach...
Página 227 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Página 47 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Página 367 - The whole history of Christianity shows, that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power, than of being crushed by its opposition. Those who thrus.t temporal sovereignty upon her treat her as their prototypes treated her author. They bow the knee, and spit upon her ; they cry
Página 255 - In favour and pre-eminence, yet fraught With envy against the Son of God, that day...
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| Título | Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1 Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay |
| Autor | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay |
| Editor | Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 16 Ene. 2007 |
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