The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. EssaysA. Hart, 1852 |
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... House of Commons , Falkland , Colepepper , and Hyde , that he would take no ineasure in which that House was concerned , without consulting them . On this In the first place , the transaction was illegal from beginning to end . The ...
... House of Commons , Falkland , Colepepper , and Hyde , that he would take no ineasure in which that House was concerned , without consulting them . On this In the first place , the transaction was illegal from beginning to end . The ...
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... House of Commons , " says he , " in an en- philosopher in every part of the world . - As to deavour to obtain new advantages at the ex- Englishmen , it was their pride , their consola pense of the other orders of the state , for the ...
... House of Commons , " says he , " in an en- philosopher in every part of the world . - As to deavour to obtain new advantages at the ex- Englishmen , it was their pride , their consola pense of the other orders of the state , for the ...
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... House of Com- brave , honest , and sound - hearted class , which mons had , during the reign of Charles the Se- is as anxious for the maintenance of order and cond , been elected by universal suffrage , or if the security of property as ...
... House of Com- brave , honest , and sound - hearted class , which mons had , during the reign of Charles the Se- is as anxious for the maintenance of order and cond , been elected by universal suffrage , or if the security of property as ...
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... House Beautiful is Castle Strength . Mr. Southey tells us that the Ca- tholics had also their Pilgrim's Progress with- out a Giant Pope , in which the Interpreter is the Director , and the House Beautiful Grace's Hall . It is surely a ...
... House Beautiful is Castle Strength . Mr. Southey tells us that the Ca- tholics had also their Pilgrim's Progress with- out a Giant Pope , in which the Interpreter is the Director , and the House Beautiful Grace's Hall . It is surely a ...
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... house of Hanover a change took place . The supreme power passed to a man who cared little for poetry or eloquence . The importance of the House of Commons was constantly on the increase . The government was under the necessity of ...
... house of Hanover a change took place . The supreme power passed to a man who cared little for poetry or eloquence . The importance of the House of Commons was constantly on the increase . The government was under the necessity of ...
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Page 11 - ... interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through...
Page 242 - There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Page 280 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 11 - Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker: but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Page 11 - ... soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh, who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which...
Page 33 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Page 140 - is a ' good man, — a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the « inside of a church for many years ; but he never passes a church ' without pulling off his hat, — this shows he has good principles.
Page 122 - That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he wished longer. It was by no common merit that the illiterate sectary extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the Pilgrim's Progress is the delight of the peasantry. In every nursery the Pilgrim's Progress is a greater favourite than Jack the Giantkiller.
Page 11 - Events, which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.