Scenes and characters from the writings of Thomas Babington Macaulay. To which is prefixed a short account of the life of the author, by R.H. Horne |
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... a Man , Decline of the Empire of Tamerlane , The late Lord Holland , 68 69 73 Trial of Warren Hastings , Warren Hastings , 81 . Father of Frederic the Great , 90 888 Frederick the Great , Voltaire , Anecdote of Garrick ,
... a Man , Decline of the Empire of Tamerlane , The late Lord Holland , 68 69 73 Trial of Warren Hastings , Warren Hastings , 81 . Father of Frederic the Great , 90 888 Frederick the Great , Voltaire , Anecdote of Garrick ,
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... FREDERIC THE GREAT . Frederic , surnamed the Great , son of Frederick William , was born in January , 1712. It may safely be pronounced that he had received from nature a strong and sharp understanding , and a rare firmness of temper ...
... FREDERIC THE GREAT . Frederic , surnamed the Great , son of Frederick William , was born in January , 1712. It may safely be pronounced that he had received from nature a strong and sharp understanding , and a rare firmness of temper ...
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... FREDERIC THE GREAT . He had from the commencement of his reign ap- plied himself to public business after a fashion unknown among kings . Louis XIV . , indeed , had been his own prime minister , and had exercised a general ...
... FREDERIC THE GREAT . He had from the commencement of his reign ap- plied himself to public business after a fashion unknown among kings . Louis XIV . , indeed , had been his own prime minister , and had exercised a general ...
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... Frederic , and received next day , from a royal messenger , Freder- ic's answer signed by Frederic's own hand . This was an extravagant , a morbid activity . The public business would assuredly have been better done if each department ...
... Frederic , and received next day , from a royal messenger , Freder- ic's answer signed by Frederic's own hand . This was an extravagant , a morbid activity . The public business would assuredly have been better done if each department ...
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... , they should finish the whole of their work . The King , always on his guard against treachery , took from the heap a handful at random , and looked into * them to see whether his instructions had been exactly FREDERIC THE GREAT . 93 PAGE.
... , they should finish the whole of their work . The King , always on his guard against treachery , took from the heap a handful at random , and looked into * them to see whether his instructions had been exactly FREDERIC THE GREAT . 93 PAGE.
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82. oldal - The place was worthy of such a trial. It was the great Hall of William Rufus, the hall which had resounded with acclamations at the inauguration of thirty kings, the hall which had witnessed the just sentence of Bacon and the Just absolution of Somers, the hall where the eloquence of...
56. oldal - 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. The history of that Church joins together the two great ages of human civilization. No other institution is left standing which carries the mind back to the times when the smoke of sacrifice rose from the Pantheon, and when camelopards and tigers bounded in the Flavian amphitheatre.
21. oldal - But there are a few characters which have stood the closest scrutiny and the severest tests, which have been tried in the furnace and have proved pure, which have been weighed in the balance and have not been found wanting, which have been declared sterling by the general consent of mankind, and which are visibly stamped with the image and superscription of the Most High. These great men we trust that we know how to prize ; and of these was Milton.
29. oldal - The sun illuminates the hills, while it is still below the horizon ; and truth is discovered by the highest minds a little before it becomes manifest to the multitude. This is the extent of their superiority. They are the first to catch and reflect a light, which, without their assistance, must, in a short time, be visible to those who lie far beneath them.
42. oldal - We are not sure that there is in the whole history of the human intellect so strange a phenomenon as this book. Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.
86. oldal - But those who, within the last ten years, have listened with delight, till the morning sun shone on the tapestries of the House of Lords, to the lofty and animated eloquence of Charles Earl Grey, are able to form some estimate of the powers of a race of men among whom he was not the foremost.
43. oldal - Servile and impertinent, shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, and eternally blustering about the dignity of a born gentleman, yet stooping to be a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London...
185. oldal - ... thirdly, that he, during the year 1770, attended debates in the House of Lords, and took notes of speeches, particularly of the speeches of Lord Chatham; fourthly, that he bitterly resented the appointment of Mr. Chamier to the place of deputy secretary-at-war; fifthly, that he was bound by some strong tie to the first Lord Holland.
88. oldal - Great Britain in parliament assembled, whose parliamentary trust he has betrayed. " I impeach him in the name of all the Commons of Great Britain, whose national character he has dishonored.
81. oldal - Every step in the proceedings carried the mind either backward, through many troubled centuries, to the days when the foundations of our constitution were laid; or far away, over boundless seas and deserts, to dusky nations living under strange stars, worshipping strange gods, and writing strange characters, from right to left.