Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1877 |
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Pagina 8
... England . Yet in spite of her knowledge she believes ; she weeps ; she trembles ; she dares not go into a dark room lest she should feel the teeth of the monster at her throat . Such is the despotism of the imagination over uncul ...
... England . Yet in spite of her knowledge she believes ; she weeps ; she trembles ; she dares not go into a dark room lest she should feel the teeth of the monster at her throat . Such is the despotism of the imagination over uncul ...
Pagina 33
... England has derived from the Revolution these people are utterly insensible . The expulsion of a tyrant , the solemn recognition of popular rights , liberty , security , toleration , all go for nothing with them . One sect there was ...
... England has derived from the Revolution these people are utterly insensible . The expulsion of a tyrant , the solemn recognition of popular rights , liberty , security , toleration , all go for nothing with them . One sect there was ...
Pagina 34
... breach of fundamental laws on the part of the sovereign justifies resistance . The question , then , is this ; Had Charles the First broken the fundamental laws of England ? No person can answer in the negative , unless he 34 MILTON .
... breach of fundamental laws on the part of the sovereign justifies resistance . The question , then , is this ; Had Charles the First broken the fundamental laws of England ? No person can answer in the negative , unless he 34 MILTON .
Pagina 37
... England claim for those who lie beneath them . A good father ! A good husband ! Ample apologies indeed for fifteen years of persecution , tyranny , and falsehood ! We charge him with having broken his coronation oath ; and we are told ...
... England claim for those who lie beneath them . A good father ! A good husband ! Ample apologies indeed for fifteen years of persecution , tyranny , and falsehood ! We charge him with having broken his coronation oath ; and we are told ...
Pagina 45
... England the curse of a Venetian oligarchy . But even when thus placed by violence at the head of affairs , he did not assume unlimited power . He gave the country a constitution far more perfect than any which had at that time been ...
... England the curse of a Venetian oligarchy . But even when thus placed by violence at the head of affairs , he did not assume unlimited power . He gave the country a constitution far more perfect than any which had at that time been ...
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1900 |
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