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... course of this article , to note instances of bad taste , of over - confidence , of one - sided judgment , in Mr. Mackay's volume . And we are , therefore , the more anxious now to recognise his considerable research , his liberality of ...
... course of this article , to note instances of bad taste , of over - confidence , of one - sided judgment , in Mr. Mackay's volume . And we are , therefore , the more anxious now to recognise his considerable research , his liberality of ...
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... course of which an example was set by such men as Hale in his own profession , and Blake in another . Far more questionable was his conduct under Charles . He was knighted immediately after the Restoration , and included in the first ...
... course of which an example was set by such men as Hale in his own profession , and Blake in another . Far more questionable was his conduct under Charles . He was knighted immediately after the Restoration , and included in the first ...
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... course , he found cause of offence in every- thing done by the fallen President . It is half melancholy , half ludicrous , to read Stair's appeals to Queensberry , imploring favour , protesting loyalty , and remonstrating against being ...
... course , he found cause of offence in every- thing done by the fallen President . It is half melancholy , half ludicrous , to read Stair's appeals to Queensberry , imploring favour , protesting loyalty , and remonstrating against being ...
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... course he had been led partly by timidity , partly because he disliked the governments he continued to serve . Both causes were now removed . His political views were in accord with the new order of things ; there was no longer room for ...
... course he had been led partly by timidity , partly because he disliked the governments he continued to serve . Both causes were now removed . His political views were in accord with the new order of things ; there was no longer room for ...
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... verhouse of oppression in Galloway , and of interference with 9 * Irregularities , of course , in matters ecclesiastical . 米 the rights of heritable jurisdiction belonging to the Stair 10 Jan. Scottish Statesmen of the Revolution :
... verhouse of oppression in Galloway , and of interference with 9 * Irregularities , of course , in matters ecclesiastical . 米 the rights of heritable jurisdiction belonging to the Stair 10 Jan. Scottish Statesmen of the Revolution :
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Side 172 - But here is the finger of God, a flash of the will that can, Existent behind all laws, that made them, and lo, they are ! And I know not if, save in this, such gift be allowed to man, That out of three sounds he frame, not a fourth sound, but a
Side 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
Side 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
Side 127 - that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by Act of Parliament.
Side 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
Side 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
Side 568 - But he saw on Palatinus The white porch of his home, And he spake to the noble river That rolls by the walls of
Side 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.
Side 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
Side 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.