 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...gentry, the fierce licentiousness of the swearing, dicing, drunken reprobates, whose excesses disgraced the royal cause, — the austerity of the Presbyterian...which ordinarily proceed far, before their progress is indicated by any public measure. An intimate knowledge of the domestic history of nations is therefore... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 466 pages
...beneath these ungraceful disguises, the dreams of the raving Fifth-monarchyman, the dreams, scarcely Jess wild, of the philosophic republican, — all these...which ordinarily proceed far, before their progress is indicated hy any public measure. An intimate knowledge of the domestic history of nations is therefore... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...spirit, which lurked beneath these ungraceful disguises, the dreams of the raving Fifth Monarcuyman, ihe Uod has ever chastened his creatures — the invasion...city, but it burned out the plague. . The same may be is indicated by any public measure. An intimate knowledge of the domestic history of nations is therefore... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1852 - 764 pages
...derived from hislorp thus written would be of a vivid»and praclicál character. It would be received bv the imagination as well as by the reason. It would...always the consequences of moral changes, which have sradually passed on the mass of the community, and which ordinarily proceed far, before their progress... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...branded into it. Many truths, too, would be learned, which can be learned in no other manner. As tbc լ @ * is indicated by any public measure. An intimate knowledge cf the domestic history of nations is therefore... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1856 - 752 pages
...the raving Fifth Monarchyman, the dreams, scarce ly less wild, of the philosophic republican—all these would enter into the representation, and render...always the consequences of moral changes, which have gra« dually passed on the mass of the community, and which ordinarily proceed far, before their progress... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...Many truths, too, would lie learned, which can be learned in no other manner. As the history of slates is indicated by any public measure. An intimate knowledge rf the domestic history of nations is therefore... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 820 pages
...render it at once more exact and more striking. The instruction derived from history thus written wouid be of a vivid and practical character. It would be...which ordinarily proceed far, before their progress is indicated by any public measure. An intimate knowledge of the domestic history of nations is therefore... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 426 pages
...instruction derived from history thus written . be received by the imagination as well as by the reason. s It would be not merely traced on the mind, but branded...which ordinarily proceed far before their progress is indicated by any public measure. An intimate knowledge of the domestic history of nations is therefore... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1860 - 424 pages
...learned, which can be learned in no other manner. As the history of states is generally written, tlie greatest and most momentous revolutions seem to come...which ordinarily proceed far before their progress is indicated by any public measure. An intimate knowledge of the domestic history of nations is therefore... | |
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Fifth-monarchyman, the dreams, scarcely less wild, of the philosophic republican, — all these would enter into the representation, and render it at once more exact and more striking. The instruction derived from history thus written, would be of a vivid... 
