Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1850 |
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1st Baron). of political opinion can alienate Cicero . No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet . Nothing , then , can be more natural than that a person en- dowed with sensibility and imagination ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1st Baron). of political opinion can alienate Cicero . No heresy can excite the horror of Bossuet . Nothing , then , can be more natural than that a person en- dowed with sensibility and imagination ...
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... opinion by whispers and insinua- tions . Coke openly proclaimed it with that rancorous inso- lence which was habitual to him . No reports are more readily believed than those which disparage genius , and soothe the envy of conscious ...
... opinion by whispers and insinua- tions . Coke openly proclaimed it with that rancorous inso- lence which was habitual to him . No reports are more readily believed than those which disparage genius , and soothe the envy of conscious ...
Pagina 46
... opinion was pro- nounced against Bacon in a manner not to be misunderstood . Soon after his marriage he put forth a defence of his conduct , in the form of a Letter to the Earl of Devon . This tract seems to us to prove only the ...
... opinion was pro- nounced against Bacon in a manner not to be misunderstood . Soon after his marriage he put forth a defence of his conduct , in the form of a Letter to the Earl of Devon . This tract seems to us to prove only the ...
Pagina 80
... opinion . They were common , because in that age law and public opinion united had not sufficient force to restrain the greediness of powerful and unprincipled magistrates . They were common , as every crime will be common when the gain ...
... opinion . They were common , because in that age law and public opinion united had not sufficient force to restrain the greediness of powerful and unprincipled magistrates . They were common , as every crime will be common when the gain ...
Pagina 83
... opinions of our age to a former age . But he has himself committed a greater error than that against which he has cautioned his readers . Without any evidence , nay , in the face of the strongest evidence , he ascribes to the people of ...
... opinions of our age to a former age . But he has himself committed a greater error than that against which he has cautioned his readers . Without any evidence , nay , in the face of the strongest evidence , he ascribes to the people of ...
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