William Pitt, earl of Chatham. Sir James Mackintosh. Lord Bacon. Sir William Temple. Gladstone on church and state. Lord Clive. Von RankeMethuen, 1903 |
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... statesmen of the eighteenth century none afforded a theme more suit- able to Macaulay's bold and brilliant rhetoric than William Pitt . With all his waywardness and affectation in little things , in great things Pitt was a simple and ...
... statesmen of the eighteenth century none afforded a theme more suit- able to Macaulay's bold and brilliant rhetoric than William Pitt . With all his waywardness and affectation in little things , in great things Pitt was a simple and ...
Pagina 2
... statesmen . For the materials of his sketch Macaulay was little indebted to the book which he professed to review . Mr. Thackeray's Life is a prolix , pompous and uninforming work . But Macaulay owed much not only as to facts , but also ...
... statesmen . For the materials of his sketch Macaulay was little indebted to the book which he professed to review . Mr. Thackeray's Life is a prolix , pompous and uninforming work . But Macaulay owed much not only as to facts , but also ...
Pagina 4
... statesman . The truth is that there scarcely ever lived a person who had so little claim to this sort of praise as Pitt . He was undoubtedly a great man . But his was not a complete and well - proportioned greatness . The public life of ...
... statesman . The truth is that there scarcely ever lived a person who had so little claim to this sort of praise as Pitt . He was undoubtedly a great man . But his was not a complete and well - proportioned greatness . The public life of ...
Pagina 6
... statesman of his day thought it possible to do , except by means of corruption ; that he looked for support , not , like the Pelhams , to a strong aristocratical connection , not , like Bute , to the personal favour of the sovereign ...
... statesman of his day thought it possible to do , except by means of corruption ; that he looked for support , not , like the Pelhams , to a strong aristocratical connection , not , like Bute , to the personal favour of the sovereign ...
Pagina 12
... statesmen of the age , with no better support than that which he received from persons like his brother Horace or Henry Pelham , whose industrious mediocrity gave no cause for jealousy , or from clever adventurers , whose situation and ...
... statesmen of the age , with no better support than that which he received from persons like his brother Horace or Henry Pelham , whose industrious mediocrity gave no cause for jealousy , or from clever adventurers , whose situation and ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 84 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Pagina 236 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Pagina 236 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 472 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church.
Pagina 420 - Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him. Then the prisoners went mad with despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies, raved, prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them.
Pagina 473 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigor when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Pagina 421 - But these things, which, after the lapse of more than eighty years, cannot be told or read without horror, awakened neither remorse nor pity in the bosom of the savage Nabob. He inflicted no punishment on the murderers. He showed no tenderness to the survivors.
Pagina 236 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Pagina 420 - But the answer was that nothing could be done without the Nabob's orders, that the Nabob was asleep, and that he would be angry if anybody woke him.
Pagina 210 - ... of the head, all which they lay to the account of philosophy. The best thing that can happen to such wretches is to have done with life at once. He quotes mythical authority in support of this doctrine ; and reminds his disciples that the practice of the sons of .-F.scu l.-ipius, as described by Homer, extended only to the cure of external injuries.