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... stand for Leeds - The Reform Bill passes - Macaulay appointed Commissioner of the Board of Control - His life in office- Letters to his sister - Contested election at Leeds - Macaulay's bearing as a candidate - Canvassing - Pledges ...
... stand for Leeds - The Reform Bill passes - Macaulay appointed Commissioner of the Board of Control - His life in office- Letters to his sister - Contested election at Leeds - Macaulay's bearing as a candidate - Canvassing - Pledges ...
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... stands in that posi- tion must often be sorely puzzled as to what he has the heart to publish and the right to withhold . I am conscious that in an undertaking of this nature a near relative has peculiar temptations towards that ...
... stands in that posi- tion must often be sorely puzzled as to what he has the heart to publish and the right to withhold . I am conscious that in an undertaking of this nature a near relative has peculiar temptations towards that ...
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... stand that sentiments which sounded very well in the Hall of the Jacobins were out of place on the West Coast of Africa . The Governor returned on shore to find the town already completely gutted . It was evident at every turn that ...
... stand that sentiments which sounded very well in the Hall of the Jacobins were out of place on the West Coast of Africa . The Governor returned on shore to find the town already completely gutted . It was evident at every turn that ...
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... stand- ing up at the nursery window by his father's side , looking at a cloud of black smoke pouring out of a tall chimney . He asked if that was hell : an inquiry that was received with a grave displeasure which at the time he could ...
... stand- ing up at the nursery window by his father's side , looking at a cloud of black smoke pouring out of a tall chimney . He asked if that was hell : an inquiry that was received with a grave displeasure which at the time he could ...
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... stand That ne'er before feared mortal hand . Mona , that isle where Ceres ' flower In plenteous autumn's golden hour Hides all the fields from man's survey As locusts hid old Egypt's day . " The passage containing a prophetic mention of ...
... stand That ne'er before feared mortal hand . Mona , that isle where Ceres ' flower In plenteous autumn's golden hour Hides all the fields from man's survey As locusts hid old Egypt's day . " The passage containing a prophetic mention of ...
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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...