The Works of Lord Macaulay: Speeches. Lays of ancient Rome. Miscellaneous poemsLongmans, Green, 1875 |
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... authority , nor concede with grace ? Would they have us wait , that the numbers of the discontented party may become larger , its demands higher , its feelings more acrimonious , its organisa- tion more complete ? Would they have us ...
... authority , nor concede with grace ? Would they have us wait , that the numbers of the discontented party may become larger , its demands higher , its feelings more acrimonious , its organisa- tion more complete ? Would they have us ...
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... authority . This at least is certain , that , if disfranchisement really be robbery , the representative system which now exists is founded on robbery . How was the franchise in the English counties fixed ? By the act of Henry the Sixth ...
... authority . This at least is certain , that , if disfranchisement really be robbery , the representative system which now exists is founded on robbery . How was the franchise in the English counties fixed ? By the act of Henry the Sixth ...
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... authority ; that the freedom and purity of election are incompatible with the very existence of your House . Give them clearly to understand that your power rests , not , as they have hitherto imagined , on their rational convictions ...
... authority ; that the freedom and purity of election are incompatible with the very existence of your House . Give them clearly to understand that your power rests , not , as they have hitherto imagined , on their rational convictions ...
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... authority of law , these are , I conceive , the objects of my noble friend , the Member for Devonshire : these ought , at the present crisis , to be the objects of every honest Englishman . They are objects which will assuredly be ...
... authority of law , these are , I conceive , the objects of my noble friend , the Member for Devonshire : these ought , at the present crisis , to be the objects of every honest Englishman . They are objects which will assuredly be ...
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... authority of all . Could any system be devised , better fitted to pervert the principles and break the spirit of men formed to be the glory of their country ? And , can we mention no instance in which this system has made such men ...
... authority of all . Could any system be devised , better fitted to pervert the principles and break the spirit of men formed to be the glory of their country ? And , can we mention no instance in which this system has made such men ...
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Page 535 - And if my standard-bearer fall, as fall full well he may, For never saw I promise yet of such a bloody fray, Press where ye see my white plume shine, amidst the ranks of war, And be your oriflamme to-day the helmet of Navarre.
Page 534 - And thou, Rochelle, our own 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.
Page 465 - But meanwhile axe and lever Have manfully been plied; And now the bridge hangs tottering Above the boiling tide. " Come back, come back, Horatius !
Page 537 - And hark ! like the roar of the billows on the shore, The cry of battle rises along their charging line: For God! for the Cause! for the Church! for the Laws! For Charles, King of England, and Rupert of the Rhine! The furious German comes, with his clarions and his drums, His bravoes of Alsatia, and pages of Whitehall; They are bursting on our flanks! Grasp your pikes! Close your ranks!
Page 159 - 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 460 - Then none was for a party ; Then all were for the state ; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great : Then lands were fairly portioned ; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.
Page 534 - And Appenzel's stout infantry, and Egmont's Flemish spears. There rode the brood of false Lorraine, the curses of our land ! And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand ! And as we looked on them, we thought of Seine's...
Page 454 - The harvests of Arretium This year old men shall reap, This year young boys in Umbro Shall plunge the struggling sheep, And in the vats of Luna This year the must shall foam Round the white feet of laughing girls Whose sires have marched to Rome.
Page 456 - Now from the rock Tarpeian Could the wan burghers spy The line of blazing villages Red in the midnight sky. The Fathers of the City, They sat all night and day, For every hour some horseman came With tidings of dismay.
Page 573 - Ho! strike the flagstaff deep, Sir Knight: ho! scatter flowers, fair maids ; Ho! gunners, fire a loud salute: ho! gallants, draw your blades : Thou sun, shine on her joyously ; ye breezes, waft her wide ; 30 Our glorious SEMPER EADEM, the banner of our pride...