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... thought , and , by so doing , to restore their original integrity . With all his brilliancy , although it is one of his distinguishing traits to touch the most grave and important topics in that light and graceful spirit which has made ...
... thought , and , by so doing , to restore their original integrity . With all his brilliancy , although it is one of his distinguishing traits to touch the most grave and important topics in that light and graceful spirit which has made ...
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... thought disposed with the utmost skill . There is no apparent straining after graces of style or peculiarities of diction . You are thrown off your guard by the simplicity of the language , and the absence of all ambitious effort . He ...
... thought disposed with the utmost skill . There is no apparent straining after graces of style or peculiarities of diction . You are thrown off your guard by the simplicity of the language , and the absence of all ambitious effort . He ...
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. of diction is throughout made secondary to vigour of thought . But Mr. Macaulay argues much in metaphor , though never for the meta- phor's sake . He will put the whole force of a position into ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. of diction is throughout made secondary to vigour of thought . But Mr. Macaulay argues much in metaphor , though never for the meta- phor's sake . He will put the whole force of a position into ...
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... thought and meaning . As he walks , or rather straggles , along the street , he seems as if in a state of total abstraction , unmindful of all that is going on around him , and solely occupied with his own working mind . You cannot help ...
... thought and meaning . As he walks , or rather straggles , along the street , he seems as if in a state of total abstraction , unmindful of all that is going on around him , and solely occupied with his own working mind . You cannot help ...
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... thoughts , never halting for an instant , even to take breath , his intellect gather- ing new vigour as it proceeds ... thought , a word , or an illustration ! He , as it were , lets you into the secret of his difficulties , and so a ...
... thoughts , never halting for an instant , even to take breath , his intellect gather- ing new vigour as it proceeds ... thought , a word , or an illustration ! He , as it were , lets you into the secret of his difficulties , and so a ...
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Page 64 - ... to the ground, when the warehouses of London were pillaged, when a hundred thousand insurgents appeared in arms on Blackheath, when a foul murder perpetrated in their presence had raised their passions to madness, when they were looking round for some captain to succeed and avenge him whom they had lost, just then, before Hob Miller, or Tom Carter, or Jack Straw, could place himself at their head, the King rode up to them and exclaimed, " I will be your leader ! " and at once the infuriated multitude...
Page 196 - India were well governed and independent of us, than ill-governed and subject to us ; that they were ruled by their own kings, but wearing our broadcloth and working with our cutlery, than that they were performing their salaams to English collectors and English magistrates, but were too ignorant to value, or too poor to buy, English manufactures.
Page 236 - For loyalty is still the same Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shin'd upon.
Page 22 - I have read history to little purpose. Sir, this alarming discontent is not the growth of a day or of a year. If there be any symptoms by which it is possible to distinguish the chronic diseases of the body politic from its passing inflammations, all those symptoms exist in the present case. The taint has been gradually becoming more extensive and more malignant, through the whole lifetime of two generations.
Page 58 - The law has no eyes: the law has no hands : the law is nothing, nothing but a piece of paper printed by the King's printer, with the King's arms at the top, till public opinion breathes the breath of life into the dead letter.
Page 198 - The laws which regulate it's growth and its decay are still unknown to us. It may be that the public mind of India may expand under our system till it has outgrown that system ; that by good government we may educate our subjects into a capacity for better government, that, having become instructed in European knowledge...
Page 195 - There is, however, one part of the bill on which, after what has recently passed elsewhere, I feel myself irresistibly impelled to say a few words. I allude to that wise, that benevolent, that noble clause, which enacts that no native of our Indian empire shall, by reason of his colour, his descent, or his religion, be incapable of holding office.
Page 20 - Chlorus ; and they would have been amazed indeed if they had foreseen, that a city of more than a hundred thousand inhabitants would be left without Representatives in the nineteenth century, merely because it stood on ground which, in the thirteenth century, had been occupied by a few huts. They framed a...
Page 26 - Sir, to undertake the defence of gentlemen who are so well able to defend themselves. I will only say that, in my opinion, the country will not think worse either of their capacity or of their patriotism, because they have shown that they can profit by experience, because they have learned to see the folly of delaying inevitable changes. There are others who ought to have learned the same lesson. I say, Sir, that there are those who, I should have thought, must have had enough to last them all their...
Page 174 - Calcutta moneymarket — if the questions of Suttee or no Suttee, Pilgrim tax or no Pilgrim tax, Ryotwary or Zemindary, half Batta or whole Batta, were to be debated at the same length at which we have debated Church reform and the assessed taxes, twenty-four hours a day and three hundred and sixty-five days a year would be too short a time for tho discharge of our duties.