Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousPhillips, Sampson,, 1858 - 744 pagina's |
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... talents will be a hinderance to him . His difficulties will be proportioned to his proficiency in the pursuits which are fashionable among his contemporaries ; and that proficiency will in general be proportioned to the vigour and ...
... talents will be a hinderance to him . His difficulties will be proportioned to his proficiency in the pursuits which are fashionable among his contemporaries ; and that proficiency will in general be proportioned to the vigour and ...
Pagina 15
... talents and gigantic vices , the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds , the golden age of the coward , the bigot , and the slave . The king cringed to his rival that he might trample on his people , sunk into a viceroy of France ...
... talents and gigantic vices , the paradise of cold hearts and narrow minds , the golden age of the coward , the bigot , and the slave . The king cringed to his rival that he might trample on his people , sunk into a viceroy of France ...
Pagina 16
... talents mankind has owed inesti- mable obligations , had not the lofty elegance which distinguished some of the adherents of Charles I. , or the easy good breeding for which the court of Charles II . was celebrated . But , if we must ...
... talents mankind has owed inesti- mable obligations , had not the lofty elegance which distinguished some of the adherents of Charles I. , or the easy good breeding for which the court of Charles II . was celebrated . But , if we must ...
Pagina 28
... talents which would have enabled him to excel in it . By the correct and vigorous delineation of human na- ture , it produces interest without a pleasing or skilful plot , and laughter without the least am- bition of wit . The lover ...
... talents which would have enabled him to excel in it . By the correct and vigorous delineation of human na- ture , it produces interest without a pleasing or skilful plot , and laughter without the least am- bition of wit . The lover ...
Pagina 29
... talents . From the moment that Charles the Eighth descended from the Alps , the whole character of Italian politics was changed . The governments of the Peninsula cease to form an independent system . Drawn from their old We have ...
... talents . From the moment that Charles the Eighth descended from the Alps , the whole character of Italian politics was changed . The governments of the Peninsula cease to form an independent system . Drawn from their old We have ...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1854 |
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Pagina 287 - 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.
Pagina 16 - Their palaces were houses not made with hands, their diadems crowns of glory which should never fade away. On the rich and the eloquent, on nobles and priests, they looked down with contempt; for they esteemed themselves rich in a more precious treasure, and eloquent in a more sublime language, nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.
Pagina 16 - 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.
Pagina 16 - Thus the 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.
Pagina 401 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.
Pagina 16 - They recognised no title to superiority but his favour; and confident of that favour, they despised all the accomplishments and all the dignities of the world. If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the Book of Life.
Pagina 16 - 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.
Pagina 65 - He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice, which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of education, and to mark the progress of the human mind. Men will not merely be described, but will be made intimately known to us. The changes of manners will be indicated, not merely by a few general phrases, or a few extracts from statistical documents, but by appropriate images presented in every line.
Pagina 151 - Beauclerk and the beaming smile of Garrick, 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 up, the gigantic body, the huge massy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the gray wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
Pagina 16 - ... daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal 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.