The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume 1 |
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... hear something authentic about the life of a man who has pro- duced works which are universally known , but which bear little or no indication of the private history and the personal qualities of the author . This was in a marked degree ...
... hear something authentic about the life of a man who has pro- duced works which are universally known , but which bear little or no indication of the private history and the personal qualities of the author . This was in a marked degree ...
Page 40
... hears them , being in my class . We are exercised also once a week in English composition , and once in Latin composition , and letters of persons renowned in history to each other . We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening ...
... hears them , being in my class . We are exercised also once a week in English composition , and once in Latin composition , and letters of persons renowned in history to each other . We get by heart Greek grammar or Virgil every evening ...
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... hear that you have so far advanced in your different prize exercises , and with such little fatigue . I know you write with great ease to yourself , and would rather write ten poems than prune one but remember that excellence is not at ...
... hear that you have so far advanced in your different prize exercises , and with such little fatigue . I know you write with great ease to yourself , and would rather write ten poems than prune one but remember that excellence is not at ...
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... hear , brings it to my mind . You told me I should be happy when I once came here , but not an hour passes in which I do not shed tears at thinking of home . Every hope , however unlikely to be realised , affords me some small ...
... hear , brings it to my mind . You told me I should be happy when I once came here , but not an hour passes in which I do not shed tears at thinking of home . Every hope , however unlikely to be realised , affords me some small ...
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... hear the Almighty saying to the fallen tyrant , " For this cause have I raised thee up , that I might show in thee My power . " As I am in very great haste with this letter I shall have but little time to write . I am sorry to hear that ...
... hear the Almighty saying to the fallen tyrant , " For this cause have I raised thee up , that I might show in thee My power . " As I am in very great haste with this letter I shall have but little time to write . I am sorry to hear that ...
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Page 40 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings ; he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 403 - Council is of opinion that the great object of the British Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among the natives of India; and that all the funds appropriated for the purpose of education would be best employed on English education alone.
Page 162 - For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
Page 376 - I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ, and -him crucified.
Page 57 - MY mind to me a kingdom is ; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss That God or nature hath assigned ; Though much I want that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave.
Page 45 - May'st thou live to know and fear Him, Trust and love Him all thy days ; Then go dwell for ever near Him, See His face, and sing His praise...
Page 402 - ... medical doctrines which would disgrace an English farrier — astronomy which would move laughter in the girls at an English boarding-school — history, abounding with kings thirty feet high and reigns thirty thousand years long — and geography, made up of seas of treacle and seas of butter.
Page 455 - It is my firm belief that, if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolater among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence.
Page 117 - wellnigh worn out with that long disease, his life,' and, in the last precious days of it, ' discovered lying on the floor, employed in learning, by aid of grammar and dictionary, enough Italian to enable him to verify...
Page 377 - Clarissa with me : and, as soon as they began to read, the whole station was in a passion of excitement about Miss Harlowe and her misfortunes, and her scoundrelly Lovelace ! The governor's wife seized the book, and the secretary waited for it, and the chief justice could not read it for tears...