The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. EssaysA. Hart, 1852 |
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الصفحة 7
... interest in them . They must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is every reason to believe , worshipped ...
... interest in them . They must have images . The strong tendency of the multitude in all ages and nations to idolatry can be explained on no other principle . The first inhabitants of Greece , there is every reason to believe , worshipped ...
الصفحة 8
... interest ; but it is not the interest which is Perhaps the gods and demons of Eschylus may best bear a comparison with the angels and devils of Milton . The style of the Athe- nian had , as we have remarked , something of the vagueness ...
... interest ; but it is not the interest which is Perhaps the gods and demons of Eschylus may best bear a comparison with the angels and devils of Milton . The style of the Athe- nian had , as we have remarked , something of the vagueness ...
الصفحة 16
... interests . Not con'ent with acknowledging , in general terms , an overruling Providence , they habitually ascribed ... interest - who had been destined , be- fore heaven and earth were created , to enjoy and earth should have passed ...
... interests . Not con'ent with acknowledging , in general terms , an overruling Providence , they habitually ascribed ... interest - who had been destined , be- fore heaven and earth were created , to enjoy and earth should have passed ...
الصفحة 21
... interest . During the gloomy and disastrous centuries They witnessed the arrangement of the pul which followed the downfall of the Roman Em- leys , and the manufacture of the thunders . pire , Italy had preserved , in a far greater de ...
... interest . During the gloomy and disastrous centuries They witnessed the arrangement of the pul which followed the downfall of the Roman Em- leys , and the manufacture of the thunders . pire , Italy had preserved , in a far greater de ...
الصفحة 24
... interest in its greatness . Its victories are their victories . Its defeats are their defeats . The contract | Switzerland , the insolence of France , and the loses something of its mercantile character . The services of the soldier are ...
... interest in its greatness . Its victories are their victories . Its defeats are their defeats . The contract | Switzerland , the insolence of France , and the loses something of its mercantile character . The services of the soldier are ...
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الصفحة 11 - ... interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute. To know Him, to serve Him, to enjoy Him, was with them the great end of existence. They rejected with contempt the ceremonious homage which other sects substituted for the pure worship of the soul. Instead of catching occasional glimpses of the Deity through...
الصفحة 242 - There happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
الصفحة 280 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
الصفحة 11 - Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion; the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker: but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
الصفحة 11 - ... soul had left no perceptible trace behind them. People who saw nothing of the godly but their uncouth visages, and heard nothing from them but their groans and their whining hymns, might laugh at them. But those had little reason to laugh, who encountered them in the hall of debate or in the field of battle. These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal, but which...
الصفحة 33 - I perceive now it is what you told me. I am not afraid of anything; for I know it is but a play. And if it was really a ghost, it could do one no harm at such a distance, and in so much company; and yet if I was frightened, I am not the only person.
الصفحة 140 - is a ' good man, — a pious man. I am afraid he has not been in the « inside of a church for many years ; but he never passes a church ' without pulling off his hat, — this shows he has good principles.
الصفحة 122 - That work, he said, was one of the two or three works which he wished longer. It was by no common merit that the illiterate sectary extracted praise like this from the most pedantic of critics and the most bigoted of Tories. In the wildest parts of Scotland the Pilgrim's Progress is the delight of the peasantry. In every nursery the Pilgrim's Progress is a greater favourite than Jack the Giantkiller.
الصفحة 11 - Events, which short-sighted politicians ascribed to earthly causes, had been ordained on his account. For his sake empires had risen, and flourished and decayed. For his sake the Almighty had proclaimed his will by the pen of the evangelist and the harp of the prophet. He had been wrested by no common deliverer from the grasp of no common foe. He had been ransomed by the sweat of no vulgar agony, by the blood of no earthly sacrifice.