The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volumen1Longmans, Green, and Company, 1877 |
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... Commons Life . - Macaulay's Party Spirit . - London Society . - Mr . Thomas Flower Ellis . - Visit to Cambridge . - Rothley Temple . - Mar- garet Macaulay's Journal . - Lord Brougham . - Hopes of Office . - Mac- aulay as a Politician ...
... Commons Life . - Macaulay's Party Spirit . - London Society . - Mr . Thomas Flower Ellis . - Visit to Cambridge . - Rothley Temple . - Mar- garet Macaulay's Journal . - Lord Brougham . - Hopes of Office . - Mac- aulay as a Politician ...
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... persons with whom he mixed most freely and confidentially in London drawing - rooms , in the Indian council - chamber , and in the lobbies and on the benches of the House of Commons , were only in part 18 [ CHAP . I. LIFE AND LETTERS OF.
... persons with whom he mixed most freely and confidentially in London drawing - rooms , in the Indian council - chamber , and in the lobbies and on the benches of the House of Commons , were only in part 18 [ CHAP . I. LIFE AND LETTERS OF.
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George Otto Trevelyan. of the House of Commons , were only in part aware . And in the next place , those who have seen his features and heard his voice are few already , and become yearly fewer : while , by a rare fate in literary annals ...
George Otto Trevelyan. of the House of Commons , were only in part aware . And in the next place , those who have seen his features and heard his voice are few already , and become yearly fewer : while , by a rare fate in literary annals ...
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... commons short , the whole community smoldered down into chronic mutiny . Zachary Macaulay was the very man for such a crisis . To a rare fund of patience and self - command and perseverance he united a calm courage that was equal to any ...
... commons short , the whole community smoldered down into chronic mutiny . Zachary Macaulay was the very man for such a crisis . To a rare fund of patience and self - command and perseverance he united a calm courage that was equal to any ...
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... Commons for the most part acted with the Tories . But may be doubted whether in the long run their party would not have been better without them . By the zeal , * the munif- icence , the laborious activity with which they pursued their ...
... Commons for the most part acted with the Tories . But may be doubted whether in the long run their party would not have been better without them . By the zeal , * the munif- icence , the laborious activity with which they pursued their ...
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Página 57 - the tongue, if such there are, And make colloquial happiness your care, Preserve me from the thing I dread and hate, A duel in the form of a debate. Vociferated logic kills me quite. A noisy man is always in the right.
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Página 416 - the rich, who are always a minority, absolutely at its mercy. The day will come when in the State of New York a multitude of people, none of whom has had more than half a breakfast, or expects to have more than half
Página 354 - of two great European communities which are rising, the one in the south of Africa, the other in Australasia; communities which are every year becoming more important, and more closely connected with our Indian empire. Whether we look at the intrinsic value of our literature, or at the particular situation of this