Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1890 |
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Pagina 3
... matter , and the observation of the Sabbath , might , we think , have caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far more orthodox or far more heretical than it is , would not ...
... matter , and the observation of the Sabbath , might , we think , have caused more just surprise . But we will not go into the discussion of these points . The book , were it far more orthodox or far more heretical than it is , would not ...
Pagina 7
... matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called , than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lacrymal glands , or the circulation of the blood , will affect the ...
... matter at all . His creed on such subjects will no more influence his poetry , properly so called , than the notions which a painter may have conceived respecting the lacrymal glands , or the circulation of the blood , will affect the ...
Pagina 36
... matters in dispute . Yet we are in the habit of praising our forefathers , who preferred a revolu- tion , a disputed succession , a dynasty of strangers , twenty years of foreign and intestine war , a standing army , and a national debt ...
... matters in dispute . Yet we are in the habit of praising our forefathers , who preferred a revolu- tion , a disputed succession , a dynasty of strangers , twenty years of foreign and intestine war , a standing army , and a national debt ...
Pagina 39
... matter . These charges , were they infinitely more important , would not alter our opinion of an event which alone has made us to differ from the slaves who crouch beneath despotic sceptres . Many evils , no doubt , were produced by the ...
... matter . These charges , were they infinitely more important , would not alter our opinion of an event which alone has made us to differ from the slaves who crouch beneath despotic sceptres . Many evils , no doubt , were produced by the ...
Pagina 77
... ex- perience , into the market . Whether the King of Naples or the Duke of Milan , the Pope or the Signory of Florence , struck the bargain , was to him a matter of perfect indifference . He was for the highest wages MACHIAVELLI . 77.
... ex- perience , into the market . Whether the King of Naples or the Duke of Milan , the Pope or the Signory of Florence , struck the bargain , was to him a matter of perfect indifference . He was for the highest wages MACHIAVELLI . 77.
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Critical and Historical Essays, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1900 |
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