The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay: Contributions to Knight's quarterly magazine. Contributions to the Edinburgh reviewLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 |
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... desire , and the greatest happiness of the greatest number , is but a poor employment for a grown man , it certainly hurts the health less than hard drinking and the fortune less than high play ; it is not much more laughable than ...
... desire , and the greatest happiness of the greatest number , is but a poor employment for a grown man , it certainly hurts the health less than hard drinking and the fortune less than high play ; it is not much more laughable than ...
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... be so . If , indeed , the word self - interest could with propriety be used for the grati- fication of every prevalent desire , he has clearly shown that this change in the signification of terms would be xii PREFACE .
... be so . If , indeed , the word self - interest could with propriety be used for the grati- fication of every prevalent desire , he has clearly shown that this change in the signification of terms would be xii PREFACE .
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... desire not to defraud Valeria or Servilia of one caress , extorted from gratitude or pity . Be my feelings what they may , I have learnt in a fearful school to endure and - to suppress them . I have been taught to 16 FRAGMENTS OF A ...
... desire not to defraud Valeria or Servilia of one caress , extorted from gratitude or pity . Be my feelings what they may , I have learnt in a fearful school to endure and - to suppress them . I have been taught to 16 FRAGMENTS OF A ...
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... desire to blast a reputation which he envies . It will furnish a se- cure ambuscade , behind which the Maroons of literature may take a certain and deadly aim . The editorial we has often been fatal to rising genius ; though all the ...
... desire to blast a reputation which he envies . It will furnish a se- cure ambuscade , behind which the Maroons of literature may take a certain and deadly aim . The editorial we has often been fatal to rising genius ; though all the ...
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... desires that which is as though it were not . " This is only one out of a hundred equally striking and expressive simili- tudes . The comparisons of Homer and Milton are mag- nificent digressions . It scarcely injures their effect to ...
... desires that which is as though it were not . " This is only one out of a hundred equally striking and expressive simili- tudes . The comparisons of Homer and Milton are mag- nificent digressions . It scarcely injures their effect to ...
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