The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, 6 tomasLongmans Green and Company, 1873 |
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... strong feelings of regret . The editing of these volumes was the last of the use- ful and modest services rendered to literature by a nobleman of amiable manners , of untarnished public and private charac- ter , and of cultivated mind ...
... strong feelings of regret . The editing of these volumes was the last of the use- ful and modest services rendered to literature by a nobleman of amiable manners , of untarnished public and private charac- ter , and of cultivated mind ...
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... strong and ardent when there was no occasion for it , and subsided when he had an opportunity of bringing it to the proof . As soon as the revolutionary spirit really began to stir in Europe , as soon as the hatred of kings became ...
... strong and ardent when there was no occasion for it , and subsided when he had an opportunity of bringing it to the proof . As soon as the revolutionary spirit really began to stir in Europe , as soon as the hatred of kings became ...
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... strong party in the City of London and in the other great towns , were decidedly adverse to the government . Of the men of letters , some were exasperated by the neglect with which the minister treated them , a neglect which was the ...
... strong party in the City of London and in the other great towns , were decidedly adverse to the government . Of the men of letters , some were exasperated by the neglect with which the minister treated them , a neglect which was the ...
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... strong opposition . But the party opposed to Walpole , while they stimulated the popular fury to the highest point , were at no pains to direct it aright . Indeed they studiously misdirected it . They misrepresented the evil . They ...
... strong opposition . But the party opposed to Walpole , while they stimulated the popular fury to the highest point , were at no pains to direct it aright . Indeed they studiously misdirected it . They misrepresented the evil . They ...
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... strong , prompt , and daring , his oratory animated and glowing . His spirits were constantly high . No misfortune , public or private , could depress him . He was at once the most un- lucky and the happiest public man of his time . He ...
... strong , prompt , and daring , his oratory animated and glowing . His spirits were constantly high . No misfortune , public or private , could depress him . He was at once the most un- lucky and the happiest public man of his time . He ...
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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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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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