The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay: Contributions to the Edinburgh review. Contributions to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Miscellaneous poems, inscriptions, etcLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... admiration , that , though in families the number of males and females differs widely , yet in great collections of human beings the disparity almost disappears . The chance undoubtedly is , that in a thousand marriages the number of ...
... admiration , that , though in families the number of males and females differs widely , yet in great collections of human beings the disparity almost disappears . The chance undoubtedly is , that in a thousand marriages the number of ...
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... admirable pamphlets , happily and justly described M. Lainé as " an honest and liberal man , discouraged by the Revolution . " This description , at the time when M. Du- mont's Memoirs were written , would have applied to almost every ...
... admirable pamphlets , happily and justly described M. Lainé as " an honest and liberal man , discouraged by the Revolution . " This description , at the time when M. Du- mont's Memoirs were written , would have applied to almost every ...
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... admirable system of Par- liamentary tactics which has been long established in the English House of Commons , and which has made the House of Commons , in spite of all the defects in its com- position , the best and fairest debating ...
... admirable system of Par- liamentary tactics which has been long established in the English House of Commons , and which has made the House of Commons , in spite of all the defects in its com- position , the best and fairest debating ...
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... admiration , but the abhorrence and contempt of man- kind . These were the doctrines which Fénélon taught . Considered as an epic poem , Telemachus can scarcely be placed above Glover's Leonidas or Wilkie's Epigoniad . Considered as a ...
... admiration , but the abhorrence and contempt of man- kind . These were the doctrines which Fénélon taught . Considered as an epic poem , Telemachus can scarcely be placed above Glover's Leonidas or Wilkie's Epigoniad . Considered as a ...
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... admiration , sometimes gave to his character a lustre resembling the lustre of true goodness , as the " faded ... admirable portraits of eminent men in these Memoirs . That of Sieyes in particular , and that of Talleyrand , are ...
... admiration , sometimes gave to his character a lustre resembling the lustre of true goodness , as the " faded ... admirable portraits of eminent men in these Memoirs . That of Sieyes in particular , and that of Talleyrand , are ...
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100 marriages admiration appeared Atterbury average fecundity Barère Barère's Billaud births to 100 brought Bunyan CALIFORNIA LIBRARY called Carmagnoles Committee of Public Convention court death defend departments departments of France deputies eloquence eminent enemies England English evil France French French Revolution friends Girondists Goldsmith Hippolyte Carnot honour House House of Bourbon human hundred inhabitants Jacobin Jacobin Club Johnson King learning less liberty literary living London Lord Louis Malthus Marie Antoinette marriages ment mind minister moral National Assembly nature never number of births Oléron opinion Paris Parliament party passed peerage peers persons Pitt political population produced proved Public Safety Revolution Revolutionary Tribunal Robespierre Sadler Sadler's principle seems slave soon spirit square mile strange suffered superfecundity tables temper terror things thought tion took towns tribune truth UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Whig whole words writer
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Seite 385 - When a murmuring sound broke out, and swelled into a shout Among the godless horsemen upon the tyrant's right. And hark! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line! For God! for the cause! — for the Church! for the laws!
Seite 260 - said one of his medical attendants, " than you should be from the degree of fever which you have. Is your mind at ease?" "No; it is not," were the last recorded words of Oliver Goldsmith.
Seite 269 - Hervey," said the old philosopher many years later, " was a vicious man ; but he was very kind to me. If you call a dog Hervey, I shall love him.
Seite 429 - To my true king I offered free from stain Courage and faith ; vain faith, and courage vain. For him, I threw lands, honours, wealth, away, And one dear hope, that was more prized than they. For him I languished in a foreign clime, Grey-haired with sorrow in my manhood's prime ; Heard on Lavernia Scargill's whispering trees, And pined by Arno for my lovelier Tees ; Beheld each night my home in fevered sleep, Each morning started from the dream to weep ; Till God, who saw me tried too sorely, gave...
Seite 431 - Without one envious sigh, one anxious scheme, The nether sphere, the fleeting hour resign. Mine is the world of thought, the world of dream, Mine all the past, and all the future mine.
Seite 272 - I saved appearances tolerably well; but I took care that the Whig dogs should not have the best of it.
Seite 293 - But, in spite of her murmurs and reproaches, he gave an asylum to another lady who was as poor as herself, Mrs. Desmoulins, whose family he had known many years before in Staffordshire. Room was found for the daughter of Mrs. Desmoulins, and for another destitute damsel, who was generally addressed as Miss Carmichael, but whom her generous host called Polly. An old quack doctor named Levett, who bled and dosed coal-heavers and hackney coachmen, and received for fees crusts of bread, bits of bacon,...
Seite 385 - And hark ! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line! For God! for the Cause! for the Church! for the Laws! For Charles King of England, and Rupert of the Rhine...
Seite 72 - 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.
Seite 315 - Pitt will be one of the first men in Parliament," said a member of the opposition to Fox.