The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Том 5Longmans, 1871 |
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... happiness , and its slavery to our freedom . These are the parts of the Revolution which the politicians of whom we speak , love to contemplate , and which seem to them not indeed to vindicate , but in some de- gree to palliate , the ...
... happiness , and its slavery to our freedom . These are the parts of the Revolution which the politicians of whom we speak , love to contemplate , and which seem to them not indeed to vindicate , but in some de- gree to palliate , the ...
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... happiness of a people . Fortunately , John Villani has given us an ample and precise account of the state of Florence in the early part of the fourteenth century . The revenue of the Republic amounted to three hundred thousand florins ...
... happiness of a people . Fortunately , John Villani has given us an ample and precise account of the state of Florence in the early part of the fourteenth century . The revenue of the Republic amounted to three hundred thousand florins ...
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... happier days , and would leave no successors behind them . The times which shine with the greatest splendour in literary history are not always those to which the human mind is most in- debted . Of this we may be convinced , by ...
... happier days , and would leave no successors behind them . The times which shine with the greatest splendour in literary history are not always those to which the human mind is most in- debted . Of this we may be convinced , by ...
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... happiness , is not recognised with sufficient clearness . The good of the body , distinct from the good of the members , and sometimes hardly compatible with the good of the mem- bers , seems to be the object which he proposes 76 ...
... happiness , is not recognised with sufficient clearness . The good of the body , distinct from the good of the members , and sometimes hardly compatible with the good of the mem- bers , seems to be the object which he proposes 76 ...
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... happiness of the people . The writers of the Roman empire lived under despots , into whose dominion a hundred nations were melted down , and whose gardens would have covered the little commonwealths of Phlius and Platea . Yet they ...
... happiness of the people . The writers of the Roman empire lived under despots , into whose dominion a hundred nations were melted down , and whose gardens would have covered the little commonwealths of Phlius and Platea . Yet they ...
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Страница 468 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Страница 39 - The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world.
Страница 643 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Страница 21 - All the portraits of him are singularly characteristic. No person can look on the features, noble even to ruggedness, the dark furrows of the cheek, the haggard and woM stare ol the eye, the sullen and contemptuous curve of the lip, and doubt that they belong to a man too proud and too sensitive to be happy.
Страница 159 - The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Страница 538 - Gibbon tapping his snuff-box, and Sir Joshua with his trumpet in his ear. In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we have been brought...
Страница 6 - By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors.
Страница 91 - He the best player!" cries Partridge, with a contemptuous sneer, "why, I could act as well as he myself. I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did. And then, to be...
Страница 386 - s thousands o' my mind. [The first recruiting sergeant on record I conceive to have been that individual who is mentioned in the Book of Job as going to and fro in the earth , and walking up and down in it.
Страница 418 - ... of dark imaginings, on whom the freshness of the heart ceased to fall like dew, whose passions had consumed themselves to dust, and to whom the relief of tears was denied, passes all calculation. This was not the worst. There was created in the minds of many of these enthusiasts a pernicious and absurd association between intellectual power and moral depravity. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, a system in which the two great...