Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, المجلد 3D. Appleton, 1857 |
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... specimens of that which we conceive to have been the great characteristic of Demos- thenes among the Greeks , and of Fox among the orators of England , reason penetrated , and if we may venture 16 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... specimens of that which we conceive to have been the great characteristic of Demos- thenes among the Greeks , and of Fox among the orators of England , reason penetrated , and if we may venture 16 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. England , reason penetrated , and if we may venture on the expression , made red - hot by passion . But this is not the kind of excellence proper to history ; and it is hardly too much to say ...
Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay. England , reason penetrated , and if we may venture on the expression , made red - hot by passion . But this is not the kind of excellence proper to history ; and it is hardly too much to say ...
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... reason to guide them , and they obeyed the guidance of observation and reason . How is it in physics ? A traveller falls in with a fruit which he had never before seen . He tastes it , and finds it sweet and re- freshing . He praises it ...
... reason to guide them , and they obeyed the guidance of observation and reason . How is it in physics ? A traveller falls in with a fruit which he had never before seen . He tastes it , and finds it sweet and re- freshing . He praises it ...
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... reason does this writer assign for giving the lie direct to the good bishop ? Abso- lutely none , except that Lord Halifax would not have talked } Was Was it on a delicate subject to so 30 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
... reason does this writer assign for giving the lie direct to the good bishop ? Abso- lutely none , except that Lord Halifax would not have talked } Was Was it on a delicate subject to so 30 MACAULAY'S MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS .
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... reason to believe that , precisely at the point of time at which we came into the world , a change took place in the faculties of the human mind , or in the mode of discovering truth , we are reformers : we are on the side of progress ...
... reason to believe that , precisely at the point of time at which we came into the world , a change took place in the faculties of the human mind , or in the mode of discovering truth , we are reformers : we are on the side of progress ...
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