Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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Pagina 54
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. upon a whole party the profligacy and baseness of the horseboys , gamblers and bravoes , whom the hope of license and plunder attracted from all the dens of Whitefriars to the standard of Charles ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. upon a whole party the profligacy and baseness of the horseboys , gamblers and bravoes , whom the hope of license and plunder attracted from all the dens of Whitefriars to the standard of Charles ...
Pagina 65
... whole man . seems to be an enigma , a grotesque assemblage of incongruous qualities , selfishness and generosity , cruelty and benevolence , craft and simplicity , abject villany and romantic heroism . One sentence is such as a veteran ...
... whole man . seems to be an enigma , a grotesque assemblage of incongruous qualities , selfishness and generosity , cruelty and benevolence , craft and simplicity , abject villany and romantic heroism . One sentence is such as a veteran ...
Pagina 74
... whole people is an army ; the whole year a march . Such was the state of so- ciety which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different ...
... whole people is an army ; the whole year a march . Such was the state of so- ciety which facilitated the gigantic conquests of Attila and Tamerlane . But a people which subsists by the cultivation of the earth is in a very different ...
Pagina 82
... whole character . The former is a local malady , the latter a constitutional taint . When the reputation of the offender is lost , he too often flings the remains of his virtue after it in despair . The Highland gentleman who , a ...
... whole character . The former is a local malady , the latter a constitutional taint . When the reputation of the offender is lost , he too often flings the remains of his virtue after it in despair . The Highland gentleman who , a ...
Pagina 84
... whole soul is occupied with vast and complicated schemes of ambition : yet his aspect and language exhibit nothing but philoso- phical moderation . Hatred and revenge eat into his heart : yet every look is a cordial smile , every ...
... whole soul is occupied with vast and complicated schemes of ambition : yet his aspect and language exhibit nothing but philoso- phical moderation . Hatred and revenge eat into his heart : yet every look is a cordial smile , every ...
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