The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, 6. kötet |
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33. oldal
... fortune , denied to the ablest statesmen , to Salisbury , to Strafford , to Clarendon , to Somers , to Walpole , had been reserved for the Pelhams . Henry Pelham , it is true , was by no means a contemptible person . His understanding ...
... fortune , denied to the ablest statesmen , to Salisbury , to Strafford , to Clarendon , to Somers , to Walpole , had been reserved for the Pelhams . Henry Pelham , it is true , was by no means a contemptible person . His understanding ...
35. oldal
... fortune , his strong hereditary connexion , his great parliamentary interest , will not alone explain this extraordi ... Fortunes of Nigel . It was so intense a passion that it supplied the place of talents , that it inspired even ...
... fortune , his strong hereditary connexion , his great parliamentary interest , will not alone explain this extraordi ... Fortunes of Nigel . It was so intense a passion that it supplied the place of talents , that it inspired even ...
40. oldal
... fortune was , his family had both the power and the inclination to serve him . At the general elec- tion of 1734 , his elder brother Thomas was chosen both for Old Sarum and for Oakhampton . When Parliament met in 1735 , Thomas made his ...
... fortune was , his family had both the power and the inclination to serve him . At the general elec- tion of 1734 , his elder brother Thomas was chosen both for Old Sarum and for Oakhampton . When Parliament met in 1735 , Thomas made his ...
41. oldal
... fortune , a consistent Whig . When the Whig party was split into two sections , Pulteney had resigned a valuable place , and had followed the fortunes of Walpole . Yet , when Walpole returned to power , Pulteney was not in- vited to ...
... fortune , a consistent Whig . When the Whig party was split into two sections , Pulteney had resigned a valuable place , and had followed the fortunes of Walpole . Yet , when Walpole returned to power , Pulteney was not in- vited to ...
51. oldal
... fortune to converse with many of the principal actors against that minister , and with those who principally excited that clamour . None of them , no not one , did in the least defend the measure , or attempt to justify their conduct ...
... fortune to converse with many of the principal actors against that minister , and with those who principally excited that clamour . None of them , no not one , did in the least defend the measure , or attempt to justify their conduct ...
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242. oldal - 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...
106. oldal - 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?
242. oldal - Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and Adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks 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...
242. oldal - 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.
630. oldal - Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid. There appeared the voluptuous charms of her to whom the heir of the throne had in secret plighted his faith. There too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music,...
629. 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...
316. oldal - List his discourse of war, and you shall hear A fearful battle render'd you in music: Turn him to any cause of policy, The Gordian knot of it he will unloose, Familiar as his garter...
630. oldal - ... too was she, the beautiful mother of a beautiful race, the Saint Cecilia whose delicate features, lighted up by love and music, art has rescued from the common decay. There were the members of that brilliant society which quoted, criticized, and exchanged repartees, under the rich peacockhangings of Mrs.
628. oldal - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
122. oldal - And they do claim, demand and insist upon all and singular the premises as their undoubted rights and liberties...