Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 3Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... questions . Judicial impartiality was not even affected . Sir Robert Walpole was in the habit of saying openly that , in election battles , there ought to be no quarter . On the present occasion the ex- citement was great . The matter ...
... questions . Judicial impartiality was not even affected . Sir Robert Walpole was in the habit of saying openly that , in election battles , there ought to be no quarter . On the present occasion the ex- citement was great . The matter ...
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Contributed to the Edinburgh Review Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. question as a question of expediency in the lowest sense of the word , and using no arguments but such as Machiavelli might have employed in his confer- ences ...
Contributed to the Edinburgh Review Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. question as a question of expediency in the lowest sense of the word , and using no arguments but such as Machiavelli might have employed in his confer- ences ...
Pagina 65
... questions of the most solemn importance . Fictitious votes were manufactured on a gigantic scale . Clive himself laid out a hundred thousand pounds in the purchase of stock , which he then divided among nominal proprie- tors on whom he ...
... questions of the most solemn importance . Fictitious votes were manufactured on a gigantic scale . Clive himself laid out a hundred thousand pounds in the purchase of stock , which he then divided among nominal proprie- tors on whom he ...
Pagina 66
Contributed to the Edinburgh Review Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. Indian questions was then far greater than at pre- sent , and the reason is obvious . At present a writer enters the service young ; he climbs slowly ; he is ...
Contributed to the Edinburgh Review Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. Indian questions was then far greater than at pre- sent , and the reason is obvious . At present a writer enters the service young ; he climbs slowly ; he is ...
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