Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumen1Weeks, Jordan & Company, 1840 |
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... never been bound to him by any other tie than that which was common to them with all their fellow citi- zens . Those who drove James from his throne , who se duced his army , who alienated his friends , who first impris- oned him in his ...
... never been bound to him by any other tie than that which was common to them with all their fellow citi- zens . Those who drove James from his throne , who se duced his army , who alienated his friends , who first impris- oned him in his ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. was of no vulgar kind . He never seems to have coveted despotic power . He at first fought sincerely and manfully for the Parliament , and never deserted it , till it had deserted its duty . If ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. was of no vulgar kind . He never seems to have coveted despotic power . He at first fought sincerely and manfully for the Parliament , and never deserted it , till it had deserted its duty . If ...
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... Never before had religious liberty and the freedom of discussion been en- joyed in a greater degree . Never had the national honor been better upheld abroad , or the seat of justice better filled at home . And it was rarely that any ...
... Never before had religious liberty and the freedom of discussion been en- joyed in a greater degree . Never had the national honor been better upheld abroad , or the seat of justice better filled at home . And it was rarely that any ...
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... never to be recalled without a blush the days of servitude without loyalty , and sensual- ity without love , of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices , the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds , the golden age of the coward , the ...
... never to be recalled without a blush the days of servitude without loyalty , and sensual- ity without love , of dwarfish talents and gigantic vices , the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds , the golden age of the coward , the ...
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... never to choose unwise means . They went through the world like Sir Artegale's iron man Talus with his flail , crushing and trampling down oppressors , mingling with hu- man beings , but having neither part nor lot in human infir ...
... never to choose unwise means . They went through the world like Sir Artegale's iron man Talus with his flail , crushing and trampling down oppressors , mingling with hu- man beings , but having neither part nor lot in human infir ...
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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 455 - 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 373 - 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...