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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... took the lowest room , and well deserved to be greeted with - Friend , go up higher . Though no man was more capable of achieving for himself a separate and indepen- dent renown , he attached himself to others ; he laboured to raise ...
... took the lowest room , and well deserved to be greeted with - Friend , go up higher . Though no man was more capable of achieving for himself a separate and indepen- dent renown , he attached himself to others ; he laboured to raise ...
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... lution . Practical evils were redressed ; no excesses were committed ; no sweeping confiscations took place ; the authority of the laws was scarcely for a moment sus- pended ; the fullest and freest discussion was tolerated in 80 MIRABEAU .
... lution . Practical evils were redressed ; no excesses were committed ; no sweeping confiscations took place ; the authority of the laws was scarcely for a moment sus- pended ; the fullest and freest discussion was tolerated in 80 MIRABEAU .
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... took his very emetics in state , and vomited majestically in the presence of all the grandes and petites entrées . Yet , though he con- stantly exposed himself to the public gaze in situations in which it is scarcely possible for any ...
... took his very emetics in state , and vomited majestically in the presence of all the grandes and petites entrées . Yet , though he con- stantly exposed himself to the public gaze in situations in which it is scarcely possible for any ...
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... took up with theories because they had no experi- ence of good government . It was because they had no charter that they ranted about the original contract . As soon as tolerable institutions were given to them , they - began to look to ...
... took up with theories because they had no experi- ence of good government . It was because they had no charter that they ranted about the original contract . As soon as tolerable institutions were given to them , they - began to look to ...
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... took blind guides . They had no experience of freedom ; and they took their opinions concerning it from men who had no more experience of it than themselves , and whose ima- ginations , inflamed by mystery and privation , exagge- rated ...
... took blind guides . They had no experience of freedom ; and they took their opinions concerning it from men who had no more experience of it than themselves , and whose ima- ginations , inflamed by mystery and privation , exagge- rated ...
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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.