The Works of Lord Macaulay: Speeches. Lays of ancient Rome. Miscellaneous poemsLongmans, Green, 1875 |
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... effect distress produces , even on people more intelligent than the great body of the labouring classes can possibly ... effects , those effects which it would produce on the Americans , or on any other people , that it blinds their ...
... effect distress produces , even on people more intelligent than the great body of the labouring classes can possibly ... effects , those effects which it would produce on the Americans , or on any other people , that it blinds their ...
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... effect which some parts of our representative system would produce on the mind of a foreigner , who had heard much of our freedom and greatness . If , Sir , I wished to make such a foreigner clearly understand what I consider as the ...
... effect which some parts of our representative system would produce on the mind of a foreigner , who had heard much of our freedom and greatness . If , Sir , I wished to make such a foreigner clearly understand what I consider as the ...
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... effect of seditious works which have lately been published . If this feeling be of origin so recent , 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 ...
... effect of seditious works which have lately been published . If this feeling be of origin so recent , 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 ...
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... effect of this Reform , he tells us , would be to make the House of Commons allpowerful . It was allpowerful once before , in the begin- ning of 1649. Then it cut off the head of the King , and abolished the House of Peers . Therefore ...
... effect of this Reform , he tells us , would be to make the House of Commons allpowerful . It was allpowerful once before , in the begin- ning of 1649. Then it cut off the head of the King , and abolished the House of Peers . Therefore ...
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... effect . Re- collect , he said , how the French aristocracy surrendered their privileges in 1789 , and how that surrender was requited . Recollect that Day of Sacrifices which was afterwards called the Day of Dupes . Sir , that day was ...
... effect . Re- collect , he said , how the French aristocracy surrendered their privileges in 1789 , and how that surrender was requited . Recollect that Day of Sacrifices which was afterwards called the Day of Dupes . Sir , that day was ...
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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...