The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, 6 tomasLongmans, 1871 |
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... mind could have produced such literary luxuries as the works of Walpole . He was , unless we have formed a very erroneous judgment of his character , the most eccentric , the most artificial , the most fastidious , the most capricious ...
... mind could have produced such literary luxuries as the works of Walpole . He was , unless we have formed a very erroneous judgment of his character , the most eccentric , the most artificial , the most fastidious , the most capricious ...
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... detain a mind which was occupied in recording the scandal of club - rooms and the whispers of the back - stairs , and which was even capable of selecting and disposing chairs of ebony WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN . 5.
... detain a mind which was occupied in recording the scandal of club - rooms and the whispers of the back - stairs , and which was even capable of selecting and disposing chairs of ebony WALPOLE'S LETTERS TO SIR HORACE MANN . 5.
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... mind to definite reforms which might have completed the work of the revolution , which might have brought the legislature into harmony with the nation , and which might have prevented the Crown from doing by influence what it could no ...
... mind to definite reforms which might have completed the work of the revolution , which might have brought the legislature into harmony with the nation , and which might have prevented the Crown from doing by influence what it could no ...
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... mind was full of an important secret of state . " I must sit still , " he once said to Lord Shelburne on such an occasion ; " for , when once I am up , everything that is in my mind comes out . " Yet he was not a great debater . That he ...
... mind was full of an important secret of state . " I must sit still , " he once said to Lord Shelburne on such an occasion ; " for , when once I am up , everything that is in my mind comes out . " Yet he was not a great debater . That he ...
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... mind . They knew that Pitt was not a man to be deceived with ease or offended with impunity . They were afraid that they should not be long able to put him off with promises . Nor was it their interest so to put him off . There was a ...
... mind . They knew that Pitt was not a man to be deceived with ease or offended with impunity . They were afraid that they should not be long able to put him off with promises . Nor was it their interest so to put him off . There was a ...
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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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