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ESSAYS CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS BY T. BABINGTON MACAULAY . PHILADELPHIA : CAREY AND HART , CHESNUT STREET STEREOTYPZD BY L. JOHNSON . MDCCCXLV . HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 46 € 305 PUBLISHERS ' NOTICE The.
ESSAYS CRITICAL AND MISCELLANEOUS BY T. BABINGTON MACAULAY . PHILADELPHIA : CAREY AND HART , CHESNUT STREET STEREOTYPZD BY L. JOHNSON . MDCCCXLV . HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 46 € 305 PUBLISHERS ' NOTICE The.
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HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 46 € 305 PUBLISHERS ' NOTICE The very general and high commendation , bestowed by the press and the community upon the American edition of Macaulay's Miscellaneous Writings , has induced the publishers to ...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1853 |
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Pagina 13 - ... faces. But the remedy is not to remand him into his dungeon, but to accustom him to the rays of the sun. The blaze of truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage. But let them gaze on, and they will soon be able to bear it. In a few years men learn to reason. The extreme violence of opinion subsides.
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. In his devotional retirement, he prayed with convulsions, and groans, and tears. He was halfmaddened by glorious or terrible illusions. He heard the lyres of angels or the tempting whispers of fiends. He caught a gleam of the Beatific Vision, or...
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 133 - There is no book in our literature, on which we would so readily stake the fame of the old, unpolluted English language ; no book which shows so well, how rich that language is, in its own proper wealth, and how little it has been improved by all that it has borrowed.
Pagina 401 - She saw the commencement of all the governments and of all the ecclesiastical establishments that now exist in the world; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all. She was great and respected before the Saxon had set foot on Britain, before the Frank had passed the Rhine, when Grecian eloquence still flourished at Antioch, when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca.
Pagina 133 - The style of Bunyan is delightful to every reader, and invaluable as a study to every person who wishes to obtain a wide command over the English language. The vocabulary is the vocabulary of the common people. There is not an expression, if we except a few technical terms of theology, which would puzzle the rudest peasant. We have observed several pages which do not contain a single word of more than two syllables. Yet no writer has said more exactly what he meant to say. For magnificence, for pathos,...
Pagina 65 - If a man, such as we are supposing, should write the history of England, he would assuredly not omit the battles, the sieges, the negotiations, the seditions, the ministerial changes. But with these he would intersperse the details which are the charm of historical romances. At Lincoln Cathedral there is a beautiful painted window, which was made by an apprentice out of the pieces of glass which had been rejected by his master. It is so far superior to every other in the church, that, according to...
Pagina 401 - Nor do we see any sign which indicates that the term of her long dominion is approaching. She saw the commencement of all the governments, and of all the ecclesiastical establishments, that now exist in the world; and we feel no assurance that she is not destined to see the end of them all.
Pagina 163 - He was of an industry and vigilance not to be tired out, or wearied by the most laborious; and of parts not to be imposed upon by the most subtle or sharp; and of a personal courage equal to his best parts...
Pagina 4 - We often hear of the magical influence of poetry. The expression in general means nothing : but, applied to the writings of Milton, it is most appropriate. His poetry acts like an incantation. Its merit lies less in its obvious meaning than in its occult power. There would seem, at first sight, to be no more in his words than in other words. But they are words of enchantment.
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| Titel | Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous Volume 1 van The modern British essayists |
| Auteur | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay |
| Uitgever | Carey and Hart, 1846 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Harvard University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 31 jan 2008 |
| Lengte | 758 pagina's |
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