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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... months . If any terms have escaped him which can be construed into personal disrespect , he shall deeply regret that he had not more time to revise them . We must in- form him that the tone of his book required a very different apology ...
... months . If any terms have escaped him which can be construed into personal disrespect , he shall deeply regret that he had not more time to revise them . We must in- form him that the tone of his book required a very different apology ...
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... months in quibbling about the words of that false and childish De- claration of Rights on which they professed to found their new constitution , and which was at irreconcilable variance with every clause of that constitution . They ...
... months in quibbling about the words of that false and childish De- claration of Rights on which they professed to found their new constitution , and which was at irreconcilable variance with every clause of that constitution . They ...
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... months . It would be impossible even to glance at all the causes of the French Revolution within the limits to which we must confine ourselves . One thing is clear . The govern- ment , the aristocracy , and the church , were rewarded ...
... months . It would be impossible even to glance at all the causes of the French Revolution within the limits to which we must confine ourselves . One thing is clear . The govern- ment , the aristocracy , and the church , were rewarded ...
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... months after the time when he had passed for a good- natured man , he had brought himself to look on the despair and misery of his fellow - creatures with a glee resembling that of the fiends whom Dante saw watching the pool of seething ...
... months after the time when he had passed for a good- natured man , he had brought himself to look on the despair and misery of his fellow - creatures with a glee resembling that of the fiends whom Dante saw watching the pool of seething ...
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... months in the south of France . In the mean time , it became clear that the constitution of 1791 would not work . It was , indeed , not to be ex- pected that a constitution new both in its principles and its details would at first work ...
... months in the south of France . In the mean time , it became clear that the constitution of 1791 would not work . It was , indeed , not to be ex- pected that a constitution new both in its principles and its details would at first work ...
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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.