The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, 6 tomasLongmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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... present collection is not superior to those which have preceded it . But it has one great ad- vantage over them all . It forms a connected whole , a regular journal of what appeared to Walpole the most important transactions of the last ...
... present collection is not superior to those which have preceded it . But it has one great ad- vantage over them all . It forms a connected whole , a regular journal of what appeared to Walpole the most important transactions of the last ...
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... present any uniform principle which may be traced in every part , and which gave combination and consistency to the whole ? Yes , and that principle was , THE LOVE OF PEACE . " It would be difficult , we think , to bestow a higher ...
... present any uniform principle which may be traced in every part , and which gave combination and consistency to the whole ? Yes , and that principle was , THE LOVE OF PEACE . " It would be difficult , we think , to bestow a higher ...
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... present , needed no interpreter . He spoke and wrote French , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Ger- man , even Swedish . He had pushed his researches into the most obscure nooks of literature . He was as familiar with Canonists and ...
... present , needed no interpreter . He spoke and wrote French , Italian , Spanish , Portuguese , Ger- man , even Swedish . He had pushed his researches into the most obscure nooks of literature . He was as familiar with Canonists and ...
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... present while a speech is delivered may be pleased or disgusted by the voice and action of the orator ; but , in the reports which are read the next day by hundreds of thousands , the difference between the noblest and the meanest ...
... present while a speech is delivered may be pleased or disgusted by the voice and action of the orator ; but , in the reports which are read the next day by hundreds of thousands , the difference between the noblest and the meanest ...
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... present , forced to be content with promises . The King resented most highly some expressions which the ardent orator had used in the debate on the Hanoverian troops . But Newcastle and Pelham expressed the strongest con- fidence that ...
... present , forced to be content with promises . The King resented most highly some expressions which the ardent orator had used in the debate on the Hanoverian troops . But Newcastle and Pelham expressed the strongest con- fidence that ...
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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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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...
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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.
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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.
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