The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: Critical and historical essaysLongmans, Green, 1866 |
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... society , and has very dexterously connected it with the history of his own times . The relation of the trick put on the doting old lover is exquisitely humorous . It is far superior to the cor- Nothing can be more evident than that ...
... society , and has very dexterously connected it with the history of his own times . The relation of the trick put on the doting old lover is exquisitely humorous . It is far superior to the cor- Nothing can be more evident than that ...
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... society . To a modern statesman the form of the Discourses may appear to be puerile . In truth Livy is not an historian on whom implicit reliance can be placed , even in cases where he must have possessed considerable means of ...
... society . To a modern statesman the form of the Discourses may appear to be puerile . In truth Livy is not an historian on whom implicit reliance can be placed , even in cases where he must have possessed considerable means of ...
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... society in the little commonwealths of Greece , the close connection and mutual dependence of the citizens , and the severity of the laws of war , tended to encourage an opinion which , under such circumstances , could hardly be called ...
... society in the little commonwealths of Greece , the close connection and mutual dependence of the citizens , and the severity of the laws of war , tended to encourage an opinion which , under such circumstances , could hardly be called ...
Página 78
... society to which he belonged , a partaker in its wealth and its poverty , in its glory and its shame . In the age of Machiavelli this was peculiarly the case . Public events had produced an immense sum of misery to private citizens ...
... society to which he belonged , a partaker in its wealth and its poverty , in its glory and its shame . In the age of Machiavelli this was peculiarly the case . Public events had produced an immense sum of misery to private citizens ...
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... society which he despised . He became careless of the decencies which were expected from a man so highly distinguished in the literary and political world . The sarcastic bitterness of his con- versation disgusted those who were more ...
... society which he despised . He became careless of the decencies which were expected from a man so highly distinguished in the literary and political world . The sarcastic bitterness of his con- versation disgusted those who were more ...
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Página 31 - The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it.
Página 639 - Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Página 28 - We accuse him of having given up his people to the merciless inflictions of the most hot-headed and hard-hearted of prelates; and the defence is, that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him! We censure him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Right, after having, for good and valuable consideration, promised to observe them; and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning!
Página 514 - We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Página 37 - We regret that these badges were not more attractive. We regret that a body to whose courage and talents mankind has owed inestimable obligations had not the lofty elegance which distinguished some of the adherents of Charles the First, or the easy good-breeding for which the court of Charles the Second was celebrated.
Página 515 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.
Página 643 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Página 28 - ... is, that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him ! We censure him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Right, after having, for good and valuable consideration, promised to observe them ; and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning ! It is to such considerations as these, together with his Vandyke dress, his handsome face, and his peaked beard, that he owes, we verily believe, most of his popularity with the present generation.
Página 614 - Let them be even as the grass growing upon the housetops, which withereth afore it be plucked up ; 7 Whereof the mower filleth not his hand, neither he that bindeth up the sheaves his bosom. 8 So that they who go by say not so much as, The LORD prosper you, we wish you good luck in the name of the LORD.
Página 21 - All the portraits of him are singularly characteristic. No person can look on the features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woful stare ol the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy.