Miscellaneous Works of Lord Macaulay: Speeches. IndexHarper & brothers, 1880 |
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... thing ; nor was I so grossly ignorant of the life and character of that remarkable man as to impute to him a doctrine which he would have abhorred . Here again , both in The Times and in the Unitarian report , the substance of what I ...
... thing ; nor was I so grossly ignorant of the life and character of that remarkable man as to impute to him a doctrine which he would have abhorred . Here again , both in The Times and in the Unitarian report , the substance of what I ...
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... things be , highly educated , to say that distress produces on them its natural effects - those effects which it would produce on the Ameri- cans , or on any other people - that it blinds their judgment , that it inflames their passions ...
... things be , highly educated , to say that distress produces on them its natural effects - those effects which it would produce on the Ameri- cans , or on any other people - that it blinds their judgment , that it inflames their passions ...
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... thing at home and abroad forebodes ruin to those who persist in a hopeless struggle against the spirit of the age ; now , while the crash of the proudest throne of the Continent is still re- sounding in our ears ; now , while the roof ...
... thing at home and abroad forebodes ruin to those who persist in a hopeless struggle against the spirit of the age ; now , while the crash of the proudest throne of the Continent is still re- sounding in our ears ; now , while the roof ...
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... things , in the hope that they may stand together . Take heed that they do not fall to- gether . You tell the people that it is as unjust to disfran- chise a great lord's nomination borough as to confiscate his estate . Take heed that ...
... things , in the hope that they may stand together . Take heed that they do not fall to- gether . You tell the people that it is as unjust to disfran- chise a great lord's nomination borough as to confiscate his estate . Take heed that ...
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... thing which makes the reform absolutely necessary . The Czar Peter , we all know , did much for Rus- sia . But for his rude genius and energy , that country might Yet would it be reason- have still been utterly barbarous 38 MACAULAY'S ...
... thing which makes the reform absolutely necessary . The Czar Peter , we all know , did much for Rus- sia . But for his rude genius and energy , that country might Yet would it be reason- have still been utterly barbarous 38 MACAULAY'S ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 285 - Lord John Russell moved for a Committee of the whole House to take into consideration the state of Ireland.
Página 434 - Not the exuberance of soil; not the mildness of climate ; not mines, nor havens, nor rivers. These things are indeed valuable when put to their proper use by human intelligence: but human intelligence can do much without them ; and they without human intelligence can do nothing. They exist in the highest degree in regions of which the inhabitants are few, and squalid, and barbarous, and naked, and starving; while on sterile rocks, amidst unwholesome marshes, and under inclement skies, may be found...
Página 95 - September, 1831, the Bill to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales was read a third time, at an early hour and in a thin house, without any debate.
Página 131 - An act for effecting an arrangement with the East India Company, and for the better government of his Majesty's Indian territories, till the thirtieth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four.
Página 333 - I am confident that the three right honourable gentlemen opposite, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the late President of the Board of Trade, will all with one voice answer
Página 91 - In peace or in convulsion, by the law, or in spite of the law, through the Parliament, or over the Parliament, Reform must be carried. Therefore be content to guide that movement which you cannot stop.
Página 121 - Can we be said to do unto others as we would that they should do unto us, if we wantonly inflict on them even the smallest pain?