The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Том 5Longmans, 1871 |
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... society men are children with a greater variety of ideas . It is therefore in such a state of society that we may expect to find the poetical temperament in its highest perfection . In an enlightened age there will be much intelligence ...
... society men are children with a greater variety of ideas . It is therefore in such a state of society that we may expect to find the poetical temperament in its highest perfection . In an enlightened age there will be much intelligence ...
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... society . The army rose against the parliament , the different corps of the army against each other . Sect raved against sect . Party plotted against party . The Presbyterians , in their eagerness to be revenged on the Independents ...
... society . The army rose against the parliament , the different corps of the army against each other . Sect raved against sect . Party plotted against party . The Presbyterians , in their eagerness to be revenged on the Independents ...
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... society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different situation . The husbandman is bound to the soil on which he labours . A long ...
... society which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different situation . The husbandman is bound to the soil on which he labours . A long ...
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... society are , there- fore , hired to relieve the rest from a task inconsistent with their habits and engagements . The history of Greece is , in this , as in many other re- spects , the best commentary on the history of Italy . Five ...
... society are , there- fore , hired to relieve the rest from a task inconsistent with their habits and engagements . The history of Greece is , in this , as in many other re- spects , the best commentary on the history of Italy . Five ...
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... society by what , in a man , is too commonly considered as an honourable distinction , and , at worst , as a venial error . The consequence is notorious . The moral principle of a woman is frequently more impaired by a single lapse from ...
... society by what , in a man , is too commonly considered as an honourable distinction , and , at worst , as a venial error . The consequence is notorious . The moral principle of a woman is frequently more impaired by a single lapse from ...
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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...