The works of lord Macaulay, complete, ed. by lady Trevelyan, 6. kötet |
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76. oldal
... judge of it as if it bore some unknown But it is to no purpose . All the lines of that vene- rable countenance are before us . All the little peculiar ca- dences of that voice from which scholars and statesmen loved to receive the ...
... judge of it as if it bore some unknown But it is to no purpose . All the lines of that vene- rable countenance are before us . All the little peculiar ca- dences of that voice from which scholars and statesmen loved to receive the ...
81. oldal
... judges . But the extreme austerity of Mr. Hallam takes away something from the pleasure of reading his learned , eloquent , and judicious writings . He is a judge , but a hang- ing judge , the Page or Buller of the High Court of ...
... judges . But the extreme austerity of Mr. Hallam takes away something from the pleasure of reading his learned , eloquent , and judicious writings . He is a judge , but a hang- ing judge , the Page or Buller of the High Court of ...
83. oldal
... judge from the unfinished work now before us , Sir James Mackintosh possessed in an eminent degree . The style of this Fragment is weighty , manly , and unaf- fected . There are , as we have said , some expressions which seem to us ...
... judge from the unfinished work now before us , Sir James Mackintosh possessed in an eminent degree . The style of this Fragment is weighty , manly , and unaf- fected . There are , as we have said , some expressions which seem to us ...
86. oldal
... judge with cer- tainty of the course which affairs might take . At first the effect was the reform of great abuses ; and honest men He rejoiced . Then came commotion , proscription , confiscation 86 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S.
... judge with cer- tainty of the course which affairs might take . At first the effect was the reform of great abuses ; and honest men He rejoiced . Then came commotion , proscription , confiscation 86 SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH'S.
91. oldal
... judge us , so ought we to judge our fathers . In order to form a correct estimate of their merits , we ought to place ourselves in their situation , to put out of our minds , for a time , all that know- ledge which they , however eager ...
... judge us , so ought we to judge our fathers . In order to form a correct estimate of their merits , we ought to place ourselves in their situation , to put out of our minds , for a time , all that know- ledge which they , however eager ...
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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...