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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... judgments of men and of parties . Almost all the distinguished writers who have treat- ed of English history are advocates . Mr. Hallam and Sir James Mackintosh are alone entitled to be called judges . Bnt the extreme austerity of Mr ...
... judgments of men and of parties . Almost all the distinguished writers who have treat- ed of English history are advocates . Mr. Hallam and Sir James Mackintosh are alone entitled to be called judges . Bnt the extreme austerity of Mr ...
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... judgment on batches of the most notorious offenders . He had a quick eye for the redeeming parts of a character , and a large toleration for the infirmities of men exposed to strong temptations . But this lenity did not arise from ...
... judgment on batches of the most notorious offenders . He had a quick eye for the redeeming parts of a character , and a large toleration for the infirmities of men exposed to strong temptations . But this lenity did not arise from ...
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... judgment - seat , the open books and the un- quenchable fire . If , in order to escape from these vexing thoughts , he flies to amusement or to licen- tious indulgence , the delusive relief only makes his misery darker and more hopeless ...
... judgment - seat , the open books and the un- quenchable fire . If , in order to escape from these vexing thoughts , he flies to amusement or to licen- tious indulgence , the delusive relief only makes his misery darker and more hopeless ...
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... judgment of time . He eagerly engaged in an undignified competition with Crebillon , and produced a series of plays on the same subjects which his rival had treated . These pieces were coolly received . Angry with the court , angry with ...
... judgment of time . He eagerly engaged in an undignified competition with Crebillon , and produced a series of plays on the same subjects which his rival had treated . These pieces were coolly received . Angry with the court , angry with ...
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... judgment of such men that the rank of authors is finally determined . It is neither to the multitude , nor to the few who are gifted with great creative genius , that we are to look for sound criti- cal decisions . The multitude ...
... judgment of such men that the rank of authors is finally determined . It is neither to the multitude , nor to the few who are gifted with great creative genius , that we are to look for sound criti- cal decisions . The multitude ...
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Page 82 - 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...
Page 56 - 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.
Page 21 - 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.
Page 29 - 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.
Page 42 - 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.
Page 86 - 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.
Page 43 - 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...
Page 185 - ... 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.
Page 88 - 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.
Page 81 - 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.