The Works of Lord Macaulay: Speeches. Lays of ancient Rome. Miscellaneous poemsLongmans, Green, 1875 |
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... give this volume to the public . I have selected , to the best of my judgment , from among my Speeches , those which are the least unworthy to be preserved . Nine of them were corrected by me while they were still fresh in my memory ...
... give this volume to the public . I have selected , to the best of my judgment , from among my Speeches , those which are the least unworthy to be preserved . Nine of them were corrected by me while they were still fresh in my memory ...
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... give any more instances . It is needless to speak of Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Sheffield , with no representation , or of Edinburgh and Glas- gow with a mock representation . If a property tax were now imposed on the principle ...
... give any more instances . It is needless to speak of Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Sheffield , with no representation , or of Edinburgh and Glas- gow with a mock representation . If a property tax were now imposed on the principle ...
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... give twice as many Members to York as they gave to London , because York had been the capital of Britain in the time of Constantius Chlorus ; and they would have been amazed indeed if they had foreseen , that a city of more than a ...
... give twice as many Members to York as they gave to London , because York had been the capital of Britain in the time of Constantius Chlorus ; and they would have been amazed indeed if they had foreseen , that a city of more than a ...
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... give my hearty support to His Majesty's Ministers . We have been told , indeed , that this is not the plan of Reform which the nation asked for . Be it so . But you can- not deny that it is the plan of Reform which the nation has ...
... give my hearty support to His Majesty's Ministers . We have been told , indeed , that this is not the plan of Reform which the nation asked for . Be it so . But you can- not deny that it is the plan of Reform which the nation has ...
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... give members to the three greatest manufac- turing towns in the world . We should have a reform which would produce all the evils and none of the benefits of change , which would take away from the representative system the foundation ...
... give members to the three greatest manufac- turing towns in the world . We should have a reform which would produce all the evils and none of the benefits of change , which would take away from the representative system the foundation ...
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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...