The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, 6 tomasLongmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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... minister in his time did so much ; yet no minister had so much leisure . He was a good - natured man who had during thirty years seen nothing but the worst parts of human nature in other He was familiar with the malice of kind people ...
... minister in his time did so much ; yet no minister had so much leisure . He was a good - natured man who had during thirty years seen nothing but the worst parts of human nature in other He was familiar with the malice of kind people ...
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... minister who gave to our Government that cha- racter of lenity which it has since generally preserved . It was perfectly known to him that many of his opponents had dealings with the Pretender . The lives of some were at his mercy . He ...
... minister who gave to our Government that cha- racter of lenity which it has since generally preserved . It was perfectly known to him that many of his opponents had dealings with the Pretender . The lives of some were at his mercy . He ...
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... minister from his post . The Government could not go on unless the Parliament could be kept in order . And how was ... ministers who managed the Legislature in the only way in which it could be managed is gross injustice . They submitted ...
... minister from his post . The Government could not go on unless the Parliament could be kept in order . And how was ... ministers who managed the Legislature in the only way in which it could be managed is gross injustice . They submitted ...
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... Minister , after a hesitating and evasive speech , voted against it . The truth was that he re- membered to the latest day of his life that terrible explosion of high - church feeling which the foolish prosecution of a foolish parson ...
... Minister , after a hesitating and evasive speech , voted against it . The truth was that he re- membered to the latest day of his life that terrible explosion of high - church feeling which the foolish prosecution of a foolish parson ...
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... power was at stake , and his choice was soon made . He preferred an unjust war to a stormy session . It is impossible to say of a Minister who acted thus that the love of peace was 22 WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN .
... power was at stake , and his choice was soon made . He preferred an unjust war to a stormy session . It is impossible to say of a Minister who acted thus that the love of peace was 22 WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN .
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The Works of Lord Macaulay– Complete, 6 tomas Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Visos knygos peržiūra - 1871 |
The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, 6 tomas Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Visos knygos peržiūra - 1866 |
The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, 6 tomas Thomas Babington baron Macaulay Visos knygos peržiūra - 1866 |
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106 psl. - 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?
316 psl. - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
629 psl. - There the historian of the Roman Empire thought of the days when Cicero pleaded the cause of Sicily against Verres, and when, before a senate which still retained some show of freedom, Tacitus thundered against the oppressor of Africa. There were seen, side by side, the greatest painter and the greatest scholar of the age. The spectacle had allured Reynolds from that easel which has preserved to us the thoughtful foreheads of so many writers and statesmen, and the sweet smiles of so many noble matrons.
190 psl. - it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
518 psl. - Our builders were with want of genius curst ; The second temple was not like the first ; Till you, the best Vitruvius, come at length, Our beauties equal, but excel our strength.
620 psl. - 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...
631 psl. - ... negligent of the art of adapting his reasonings and his style to the capacity and taste of his hearers, but in amplitude of comprehension and richness of imagination superior to every orator, ancient or modern. There, with eyes reverentially fixed on Burke, appeared the finest gentleman of the age, his form developed by every manly exercise, his face beaming with intelligence and spirit, the ingenious, the chivalrous, the high-souled Windham.
396 psl. - The sepoys came to Clive, not to complain of their scanty fare, but to propose that all the grain should be given to the Europeans, who required more nourishment than the natives of Asia. The thin gruel, they said, which was strained away from the rice, would suffice for themselves. History contains no more touching instance of military fidelity, or of the influence of a commanding mind.
518 psl. - O defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend! Let not the insulting foe my fame pursue, But shade those laurels which descend to you: And take for tribute what these lines express: You merit more; nor could my love do less.
628 psl. - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.