The Works of Lord Macaulay, Complete: Critical and historical essaysLongmans, Green, 1866 |
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... POPULATION JOHN BUNYAN • CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS SADLER'S REFUTATION REFUTED • SAMUEL JOHNSON JOHN HAMPDEN BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES MIRABEAU WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN PAGE • 1 • 46 • 83 122 . 162- 239 • 272 • 301 • 330 · 369 ...
... POPULATION JOHN BUNYAN • CIVIL DISABILITIES OF THE JEWS SADLER'S REFUTATION REFUTED • SAMUEL JOHNSON JOHN HAMPDEN BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES MIRABEAU WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN PAGE • 1 • 46 • 83 122 . 162- 239 • 272 • 301 • 330 · 369 ...
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... Italy from the neighbouring countries was the importance which the population of the towns , at a very early period , began to acquire . Some cities VOL . V. E had been founded in wild and remote situations , by MACHIAVELLI . 49.
... Italy from the neighbouring countries was the importance which the population of the towns , at a very early period , began to acquire . Some cities VOL . V. E had been founded in wild and remote situations , by MACHIAVELLI . 49.
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... population by thousands in the caverns to which it had fled for safety . Such were the cruelties which daily excited the terror and disgust of a people among whom , till lately , the worst that a soldier had to fear in a pitched battle ...
... population by thousands in the caverns to which it had fled for safety . Such were the cruelties which daily excited the terror and disgust of a people among whom , till lately , the worst that a soldier had to fear in a pitched battle ...
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... population of an overgrown empire . The fear of heresy did what the sense of oppression could not do ; it changed men , accustomed to be turned over like sheep from tyrant to tyrant , into devoted partisans and Jobstinate rebels . The ...
... population of an overgrown empire . The fear of heresy did what the sense of oppression could not do ; it changed men , accustomed to be turned over like sheep from tyrant to tyrant , into devoted partisans and Jobstinate rebels . The ...
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... population , an act passed prohibiting the celebration of the rites of the Romish Church , on pain of forfeiture for the first offence , of a year's imprisonment for the second , and of perpetual imprisonment for the third . A law was ...
... population , an act passed prohibiting the celebration of the rites of the Romish Church , on pain of forfeiture for the first offence , of a year's imprisonment for the second , and of perpetual imprisonment for the third . A law was ...
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Página 31 - The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it.
Página 639 - Forgiveness to the injured does belong ; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
Página 28 - We accuse him of having given up his people to the merciless inflictions of the most hot-headed and hard-hearted of prelates; and the defence is, that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him! We censure him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Right, after having, for good and valuable consideration, promised to observe them; and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning!
Página 514 - We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography. Boswell was one of the smallest men that ever lived, and he has beaten them all.
Página 37 - We regret that these badges were not more attractive. We regret that a body to whose courage and talents mankind has owed inestimable obligations had not the lofty elegance which distinguished some of the adherents of Charles the First, or the easy good-breeding for which the court of Charles the Second was celebrated.
Página 515 - But these men attained literary eminence in spite of their weaknesses. Boswell attained it by reason of his weaknesses. If he had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer.
Página 643 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God...
Página 28 - ... is, that he took his little son on his knee and kissed him ! We censure him for having violated the articles of the Petition of Right, after having, for good and valuable consideration, promised to observe them ; and we are informed that he was accustomed to hear prayers at six o'clock in the morning ! It is to such considerations as these, together with his Vandyke dress, his handsome face, and his peaked beard, that he owes, we verily believe, most of his popularity with the present generation.
Página 614 - 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.
Página 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 woful 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.