The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volumen143A. Constable, 1876 |
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... hope than the most sanguine could entertain for Ireland . Unlike the case of England , so utter had been the disregard of law , so entire the overthrow of every cherished institution , that the whole constitutional fabric had to be re ...
... hope than the most sanguine could entertain for Ireland . Unlike the case of England , so utter had been the disregard of law , so entire the overthrow of every cherished institution , that the whole constitutional fabric had to be re ...
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... hope of safety to him or his lay in the stability of William's throne . Even now , however , the part which he took was not a public one . He lived in a beautiful villa on the banks of the Thames belonging to the widow of his old patron ...
... hope of safety to him or his lay in the stability of William's throne . Even now , however , the part which he took was not a public one . He lived in a beautiful villa on the banks of the Thames belonging to the widow of his old patron ...
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... hope , for really the bulk of this nation are affectioned to the Government , and sensible of the security they enjoy both of their religion and property . I wish it were as well with us ( in Scotland ) , who talk more of religion aud ...
... hope , for really the bulk of this nation are affectioned to the Government , and sensible of the security they enjoy both of their religion and property . I wish it were as well with us ( in Scotland ) , who talk more of religion aud ...
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... the Presbyterians for compliances with the late Government . ' We make these remarks in no unfriendly spirit . But if Mr. Mackay is ever to 6 6 fulfil , as there is reason to hope he may 28 Jan. Scottish Statesmen of the Revolution :
... the Presbyterians for compliances with the late Government . ' We make these remarks in no unfriendly spirit . But if Mr. Mackay is ever to 6 6 fulfil , as there is reason to hope he may 28 Jan. Scottish Statesmen of the Revolution :
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Or Critical Journal. fulfil , as there is reason to hope he may , the promise which this book , with all its faults , affords , he must study the prin- iples of historical evidence ; he must keep present to his mind the difference ...
Or Critical Journal. fulfil , as there is reason to hope he may , the promise which this book , with all its faults , affords , he must study the prin- iples of historical evidence ; he must keep present to his mind the difference ...
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Página 172 - Consider it well ; each tone of our scale in itself is nought ; It is everywhere in the world—loud, soft, and all is said : Give it to me to use ! I mix it with two in my thought, And there ! ye have seen and heard ; consider and bow the
Página 581 - who are the same in wealth and in " poverty, in glory and in obscurity." Great as were the honours and possessions which Macaulay acquired by his pen, all who knew him were well aware that the titles and rewards, which he gained by his own works, were as nothing in the
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Página 581 - except himself to speak. He has told us how his debt to them was incalculable ; how they guided him to truth; how they filled his mind with noble and graceful images; how they stood by him in all vicissitudes,—comforters in sorrow, nurses in sickness, companions in solitude, " the old friends who are
Página 438 - no goods or commodities whatever, of the growth, production, or manufacture of Asia, Africa, or America, should be imported either into England or Ireland or any of the plantations of Great Britain, except in Britishbuilt ships, owned by British subjects, and of which the master and three-fourths of the crew belonged to that country
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Página 569 - materially depends upon the temper in which the search for it is instituted and conducted." ' How much this letter pleased Macaulay is indicated by the fact of his having kept it unburned : a compliment which, except in this single instance, he never paid to any of his correspondents.
Página 580 - History will have been printed and sold in the United Kingdom alone.' Caring little for money, except in so far as he was able to make a liberal and generous use of it, Macaulay enjoyed the power his new opulence had conferred on him. Until he was fifty-two years of age, he had never had a
Página 497 - was thrown out of gear. The scarcity of hands made it difficult for the minor tenants to perform the services due for their lands, and only a temporary abandonment of half the rent by the landowners induced the farmers to refrain from the abandonment of their farms.