The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. EssaysA. Hart, 1852 |
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... authority , and devoted to the search of truth . He pro- fesses to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of Scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But he is not always so happy in his ...
... authority , and devoted to the search of truth . He pro- fesses to form his system from the Bible alone ; and his digest of Scriptural texts is certainly among the best that have appeared . But he is not always so happy in his ...
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... authority of Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insen- sible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles ...
... authority of Johnson is against us on this point . But Johnson had studied the bad writers of the middle ages till he had become utterly insen- sible to the Augustan elegance , and was as ill qualified to judge between two Latin styles ...
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... authority - not even reserving to himself a veto on its enact- ments . And he did not require that the chief magistracy should be hereditary in his family . Thus far , we think , if the circumstances of the time , and the opportunities ...
... authority - not even reserving to himself a veto on its enact- ments . And he did not require that the chief magistracy should be hereditary in his family . Thus far , we think , if the circumstances of the time , and the opportunities ...
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... authority . For his death dissolved the whole frame of society . The army rose against the Parliament , the different corps of the army against each other . Sect raved against sect . Party plotted against party . The Presbyterians , in ...
... authority . For his death dissolved the whole frame of society . The army rose against the Parliament , the different corps of the army against each other . Sect raved against sect . Party plotted against party . The Presbyterians , in ...
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... authority of the Eastern Empire , preserved self from the most sacred engagements , and its something of Eastern knowledge and refine ment . Rome , protected by the sacred charac- ter of its Pontiffs , enjoyed at least comparative ...
... authority of the Eastern Empire , preserved self from the most sacred engagements , and its something of Eastern knowledge and refine ment . Rome , protected by the sacred charac- ter of its Pontiffs , enjoyed at least comparative ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
absurd admiration ancient appeared army Bacon better Catholic century character Charles Church Church of England Church of Rome civil Clive court defend doctrines Dupleix effect eminent enemies England English Europe evil favour feelings France French Gladstone Hampden Herodotus honour house of Bourbon House of Commons human hundred interest James judge king less liberty lived Long Parliament Lord Lord Byron manner means ment Milton mind minister moral nation nature never Novum Organum Omichund opinion Parliament party passed persecution person philosophy Pitt poet poetry political prince principles produced Protestant Protestantism racter readers reason reform reign religion religious respect Revolution Rome scarcely seems Sir James Mackintosh Southey sovereign Spain spirit statesmen strong talents temper Temple thing thought thousand Thucydides tion took Tories truth Walpole Whigs whole writer
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 11 - ... interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through...
Seite 242 - There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Seite 280 - We see in needle-works 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 doth best discover virtue.
Seite 11 - Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker: but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Seite 11 - ... soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh, who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which...
Seite 33 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
Seite 140 - is a ' good man, — a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the « inside of a church for many years ; but he never passes a church ' without pulling off his hat, — this shows he has good principles.
Seite 122 - That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he wished longer. It was by no common merit that the illiterate sectary extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the Pilgrim's Progress is the delight of the peasantry. In every nursery the Pilgrim's Progress is a greater favourite than Jack the Giantkiller.
Seite 11 - Events, which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.