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... the knowledge of others . When he said in his essays that every schoolboy knew this and that fact in history , he was judging their information by his own vast in- tellectual stores . At the age of twelve , Macaulay was sent to xxii.
... the knowledge of others . When he said in his essays that every schoolboy knew this and that fact in history , he was judging their information by his own vast in- tellectual stores . At the age of twelve , Macaulay was sent to xxii.
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... sent to a private school in the neighbourhood of Cambridge . There he laid the foundation of his future scholar- ship , and though fully occupied with his school work - chiefly Latin , Greek and mathematics - he found time to gratify ...
... sent to a private school in the neighbourhood of Cambridge . There he laid the foundation of his future scholar- ship , and though fully occupied with his school work - chiefly Latin , Greek and mathematics - he found time to gratify ...
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... sent his plate to the mint at Oxford , joined the royal army , and , after spending half his property in the cause of King Charles , was glad to ransom himself by making over 15 most of the remaining half to Speaker Lenthal.1 The IO war ...
... sent his plate to the mint at Oxford , joined the royal army , and , after spending half his property in the cause of King Charles , was glad to ransom himself by making over 15 most of the remaining half to Speaker Lenthal.1 The IO war ...
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... sent to the village 10 school , where he learned his letters on the same bench with the sons of the peasantry ; nor did anything in his garb or fare indicate that his life was to take a widely different course from that of the young ...
... sent to the village 10 school , where he learned his letters on the same bench with the sons of the peasantry ; nor did anything in his garb or fare indicate that his life was to take a widely different course from that of the young ...
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... sent to a school at Newington , where he was well taught but ill fed . He always attributed the 20 smallness of his stature to the hard and scanty fare of this seminary . At ten he was removed to West- minster School , then flourishing ...
... sent to a school at Newington , where he was well taught but ill fed . He always attributed the 20 smallness of his stature to the hard and scanty fare of this seminary . At ten he was removed to West- minster School , then flourishing ...
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Page 171 - Westminster election against palace and treasury, shone round Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. The sergeants made proclamation. Hastings advanced to the bar, and bent his knee. The culprit was, indeed, not unworthy of that great presence. He had ruled an extensive and populous country, had made laws and treaties, had sent forth armies, had set up and pulled down princes.
Page 169 - The gray old walls were hung with scarlet. The long galleries were crowded by an audience such as has rarely excited the fears or the emulation of an orator. There were gathered together, from all parts of a great, free, enlightened, and prosperous empire, grace and female loveliness, wit and learning, the representatives of every science and of every art.
Page 171 - ... and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage which, while it indicated deference to the court, indicated also habitual self-possession and selfrespect, a high and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not gloomy, a mouth of inflexible decision, a face pale and worn, but serene, on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the councilchamber...
Page 168 - Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers. The streets were kept clear by cavalry. The peers, robed in gold and ermine, were marshalled by the heralds under Garter King-at-Arms.
Page 166 - Westminster; but perhaps there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind. All the various kinds of interest which belong to the near and to the distant, to the present and to the past, were collected on one spot and in one hour. All the talents and all the accomplishments which are developed by liberty and civilization were now displayed with every advantage that could be derived both from co-operation and from contrast.
Page 174 - With an exuberance of thought and a splendor of diction which more than satisfied the highly raised expectation of the audience, he described the character and institutions of the natives of India, recounted the circumstances in which the Asiatic empire of Britain had originated, and set forth the constitution of the Company and...
Page 170 - Parr to suspend his labours in that dark and profound mine from which he had extracted a vast treasure of erudition, a treasure too often buried in the earth, too often paraded with injudicious and inelegant ostentation, but still precious, massive, and splendid.
Page 166 - There have been spectacles more dazzling to the eye, more gorgeous with jewellery and cloth of gold, more attractive to grown-up children, than that which was then exhibited at Westminster ; but, perhaps, there never was a spectacle so well calculated to strike a highly cultivated, a reflecting, an imaginative mind.
Page 151 - Street. All India was present to the eye of his mind, from the halls where suitors laid gold and perfumes at the feet of sovereigns to the wild moor where the...
Page 27 - What the horns are to the buffalo, what the paw is to the tiger, what the sting is to the bee, what beauty, according to the old Greek song, is to woman, deceit is to the Bengalee. Large promises, smooth excuses, elaborate tissues of circumstantial falsehood, chicanery, perjury, forgery, are the weapons, offensive and defensive, of the people of the Lower Ganges.