The Works of Lord Macaulay Complete, Band 8Longmans, 1871 |
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... institutions of our country . I understand those cheers : but surely the gentlemen who utter them will allow that the change which will be made in our institutions by this bill is far less violent than that which , according to the ...
... institutions of our country . I understand those cheers : but surely the gentlemen who utter them will allow that the change which will be made in our institutions by this bill is far less violent than that which , according to the ...
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... institutions of the country would be overturned by popular violence . Was he then accused of threatening the House ? Will any gentleman say that it is parliamentary and decorous to urge the danger arising from popular discontent as an ...
... institutions of the country would be overturned by popular violence . Was he then accused of threatening the House ? Will any gentleman say that it is parliamentary and decorous to urge the danger arising from popular discontent as an ...
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... institutions gave Members to Aldborough when it was as small as it now is , those who would disfranchise it on account of its smallness have no right to say that they are recurring to the original principle of our representative ...
... institutions gave Members to Aldborough when it was as small as it now is , those who would disfranchise it on account of its smallness have no right to say that they are recurring to the original principle of our representative ...
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... institutions . It is now time for us to pay a decent , a rational , a manly reverence to our ancestors , not by superstitiously adhering to what they , in other circum- stances , did , but by doing what they , in our circumstances ...
... institutions . It is now time for us to pay a decent , a rational , a manly reverence to our ancestors , not by superstitiously adhering to what they , in other circum- stances , did , but by doing what they , in our circumstances ...
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... institutions have no hold on the public mind of Eng- land ; that these institutions are regarded with aversion by a decided majority of the middle class . This , Sir , I say , is plainly deducible from his proposition ; for he tells us ...
... institutions have no hold on the public mind of Eng- land ; that these institutions are regarded with aversion by a decided majority of the middle class . This , Sir , I say , is plainly deducible from his proposition ; for he tells us ...
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Seite 477 - No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank; But friends and foes, in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear. All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer.
Seite 469 - Hew down the bridge, Sir Consul, With all the speed ye may; I, with two more to help me, Will hold the foe in play. In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three. Now who will stand on either hand, And keep the bridge with me?" Then out spake Spurius Lartius ; A Ramnian proud was he: "Lo, I will stand at thy right hand, And keep the bridge with thee.
Seite 544 - Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.
Seite 469 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Seite 545 - Ho ! maidens of Vienna ! Ho ! matrons of Lucerne ! Weep, weep, and rend your hair for those who never shall return. Ho ! Philip, send, for charity, thy Mexican pistoles, That Antwerp monks may sing a mass for thy poor spearmen's souls...
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Seite 463 - Tall are the oaks whose acorns Drop in dark Auser's rill ; Fat are the stags that champ the boughs Of the Ciminian hill ; Beyond all streams Clitumnus Is to the herdsman dear ; Best of all pools the fowler loves The great Volsinian mere.