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Pagina 2
... interest , transient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dexterous Capuchins never choose to preach on the life and mira - ponding uniformity in the cause . cles of a saint , till they have awakened the devotional feelings ...
... interest , transient as it may be , which this work has excited . The dexterous Capuchins never choose to preach on the life and mira - ponding uniformity in the cause . cles of a saint , till they have awakened the devotional feelings ...
Pagina 8
... interest ; but it is not the interest which is The Spirits of Milton are unlike those of almost all other writers . His fiends , in parti- cular , are wonderful creations . They are not metaphysical abstractions . They are not wicked ...
... interest ; but it is not the interest which is The Spirits of Milton are unlike those of almost all other writers . His fiends , in parti- cular , are wonderful creations . They are not metaphysical abstractions . They are not wicked ...
Pagina 16
... interest - who had been destined , be- spirits of light and darkness looked with fore heaven and earth were created ... interests . Not content with acknowledging , in general terms , an overruling Providence , they habitually ascribed ...
... interest - who had been destined , be- spirits of light and darkness looked with fore heaven and earth were created ... interests . Not content with acknowledging , in general terms , an overruling Providence , they habitually ascribed ...
Pagina 21
... interest . They witnessed the arrangement of the pul leys , and the manufacture of the thunders . They saw the natural faces and heard the na- tural voices of the actors . Distant nations looked on the Pope as the vicegerent of the ...
... interest . They witnessed the arrangement of the pul leys , and the manufacture of the thunders . They saw the natural faces and heard the na- tural voices of the actors . Distant nations looked on the Pope as the vicegerent of the ...
Pagina 24
... interest and the strongest feelings concurred to of the daily exercise of years could train the mitigate the hostility of those who had lately man at arms to support his ponderous panoply been brethren in arms , and who might soon be ...
... interest and the strongest feelings concurred to of the daily exercise of years could train the mitigate the hostility of those who had lately man at arms to support his ponderous panoply been brethren in arms , and who might soon be ...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous, Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay Volledige weergave - 1854 |
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Pagina 401 - Antioch — when idols were still worshipped in the temple of Mecca. And she may still exist in undiminished vigour 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 368 - Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Pagina 115 - Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the people by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties ; by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment ; by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this, — the People will assuredly...
Pagina 16 - Death had lost its terrors, and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world. Enthusiasm had made them stoics, had cleared their minds from every vulgar passion and prejudice, and raised them above the influence of danger and of corruption. It sometimes might lead them to pursue unwise ends, but never to choose unwise means. They went through the world like Sir...
Pagina 16 - They recognised no title to superiority but his favour; and confident of that favour, they despised all the accomplishments and all the dignities of the world. If they were unacquainted with the works of philosophers and poets, they were deeply read in the oracles of God. If their names were not found in the registers of heralds, they were recorded in the Book of Life.
Pagina 249 - There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
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 38 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of any thing ; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company ; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Pagina 13 - Those who injured her during the period of her disguise, were forever excluded from participation in the blessings which she bestowed. But to those who, in spite of her loathsome aspect, pitied and protected her, she afterwards revealed herself in the beautiful and celestial form which was natural to her, accompanied their steps, granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love, and victorious in war.* Such a spirit is Liberty.
Pagina 13 - Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory ! There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces; and that cure is freedom.