The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volumen2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1876 |
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... Government PAGE 49 • • CHAPTER IX . 1841-44 . Macaulay settles in the Albany - Letters to Mr. Napier - Warren Hastings , and the Vicar of Wakefield - Leigh Hunt - Macaulay's doubts about the wisdom of publishing his Essays - Lord ...
... Government PAGE 49 • • CHAPTER IX . 1841-44 . Macaulay settles in the Albany - Letters to Mr. Napier - Warren Hastings , and the Vicar of Wakefield - Leigh Hunt - Macaulay's doubts about the wisdom of publishing his Essays - Lord ...
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... Government ; and that , in a short time , it will be necessary for you to take one of three courses , to every one of which there are strong objections ; -to break with him ; to admit his papers into the Review , while the rest of the ...
... Government ; and that , in a short time , it will be necessary for you to take one of three courses , to every one of which there are strong objections ; -to break with him ; to admit his papers into the Review , while the rest of the ...
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... Government will gain any . As to Brougham , he has reached that happy point at which it is equally impossible for him to gain character and lose it . Ever , dear Napier , Yours most truly T. B. MACAULAY . There was , indeed , very ...
... Government will gain any . As to Brougham , he has reached that happy point at which it is equally impossible for him to gain character and lose it . Ever , dear Napier , Yours most truly T. B. MACAULAY . There was , indeed , very ...
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... government ; but a man in office , and out of the Cabinet , is a mere slave . I have felt the bitterness of that slavery once . Though I hardly knew where to turn for a morsel of bread , my spirit rose against the intoler- able thraldom ...
... government ; but a man in office , and out of the Cabinet , is a mere slave . I have felt the bitterness of that slavery once . Though I hardly knew where to turn for a morsel of bread , my spirit rose against the intoler- able thraldom ...
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... Government at greater length than in his diary . " Rome was full enough of English when I arrived , but now the crowd is insupportable . I avoid society , as much as I can with- out being churlish ; for it is boyish to come to Italy for ...
... Government at greater length than in his diary . " Rome was full enough of English when I arrived , but now the crowd is insupportable . I avoid society , as much as I can with- out being churlish ; for it is boyish to come to Italy for ...
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