The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volumes 1-2Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1867 - Great Britain |
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... political and social consequences , rather than himself to follow out their slow and laborious pro- cesses , for which , indefatigable as he was , he had no time , probably no inclination . Yet the annals of the Royal Society , which ...
... political and social consequences , rather than himself to follow out their slow and laborious pro- cesses , for which , indefatigable as he was , he had no time , probably no inclination . Yet the annals of the Royal Society , which ...
Page xvi
... political satires of Canning , are hardly in point ) stand perhaps alone . If all the writings of Chatham , Pitt , Fox , Erskine , Peel , had been suppressed , the world would have suffered no great loss . Macaulay had no thought of ...
... political satires of Canning , are hardly in point ) stand perhaps alone . If all the writings of Chatham , Pitt , Fox , Erskine , Peel , had been suppressed , the world would have suffered no great loss . Macaulay had no thought of ...
Page xxi
... political correspondence of statesmen and ambassadors ; he must search into , he must make himself familiar with the lowest , the most ephemeral , the most contemptible of the writings of the day . There is no trash which he must not ...
... political correspondence of statesmen and ambassadors ; he must search into , he must make himself familiar with the lowest , the most ephemeral , the most contemptible of the writings of the day . There is no trash which he must not ...
Page xxii
... political or religious feelings . He did not , perhaps , always nicely measure the strength of his own language ; and he so abhorred meanness and dishonesty , that they appeared doubly mean and dishonest in men of great fame and high ...
... political or religious feelings . He did not , perhaps , always nicely measure the strength of his own language ; and he so abhorred meanness and dishonesty , that they appeared doubly mean and dishonest in men of great fame and high ...
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... political life , he made , we believe , no lasting enemy ; he secured the unswerving attachment of his political friends , to whom he had been unswervingly true . Νο act inconsistent with the highest honour and integrity was ever ...
... political life , he made , we believe , no lasting enemy ; he secured the unswerving attachment of his political friends , to whom he had been unswervingly true . Νο act inconsistent with the highest honour and integrity was ever ...
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Page 94 - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
Page 100 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments...
Page 297 - Death is there associated, not, as in Westminster Abbey and St. Paul's, with genius and virtue, with public veneration and imperishable renown ; not, as in our humblest churches and churchyards, with everything that is most endearing in social and domestic charities ; but with whatever is darkest in human nature and in human destiny, with the savage triumph of implacable enemies, with the inconstancy, the ingratitude, the cowardice of friends, with all the miseries of fallen greatness and of blighted...
Page 177 - Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilisation of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially...
Page 234 - Richard ! Richard ! dost thou think we will let thee poison the court ? Richard ! thou art an old knave. Thou hast written books enough to load a cart, and every book as full of sedition as an egg is full of meat. By the grace of God, I'll look after thee. I see a great many of your brotherhood waiting to know what will befall their mighty Don. And there,' he continued, fixing his savage eyes on Bates, ' there is a doctor of the party at your elbow. But, by the grace of God Almighty, I will crush...
Page 77 - The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.
Page 21 - Edinburgh, will be able to form some judgment as to the tendency of papal domination. The descent of Spain, once the first among monarchies, to the lowest depths of degradation ; the elevation of Holland, in spite of many natural disadvantages, to a position such as no commonwealth so small has ever reached, teach the same lesson.
Page 185 - To prepare such letters became a calling in London, as it now is among the natives of India. The newswriter rambled from coffee room to coffee room, collecting reports, squeezed himself into the Sessions House at the Old Bailey if there was an interesting trial, nay, perhaps obtained admission to the gallery of Whitehall, and noticed how the King and Duke looked.
Page 180 - The ordinary day's journey of a flying coach was about fifty miles in the summer ; but in winter, when the ways were bad and the nights long, little more than thirty. The Chester coach, the York coach, and the Exeter coach generally reached London in four days during the fine season, but at Christmas not till the sixth day.
Page xxiii - James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. I shall recount the errors which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. I shall trace the course of that revolution which, terminated the long struggle between our sovereigns and their parliaments, and bound up together the rights of the people and the title of the reigning dynasty.