The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume 2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1876 - Authors, English |
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Page 176 - You try to frighten us by telling us that, in some German factories, the young work seventeen hours in the twenty-four, that they work so hard that among thousands there is not one who grows to such a stature that he can be admitted into the army ; and you ask whether, if we pass this bill, we can possibly hold our own against such competition as this ? Sir, I laugh at the thought of such competition. If ever we are forced to yield the foremost place among commercial nations, we shall yield it, not...
Page 388 - I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
Page 464 - Italian country house from the beginning of the sixteenth to the end of the eighteenth century...
Page 221 - Five generations have since passed away ; and still the wall of Londonderry is to the Protestants of Ulster what the trophy of Marathon was to the Athenians. A lofty pillar, rising from a bastion which bore during many weeks the heaviest fire of the enemy, is seen far up and far down the Foyle.
Page 339 - If, instead of learning Greek, we learned the Cherokee, the man who understood the Cherokee best, who made the most correct and melodious Cherokee verses, who comprehended most accurately the effect of the Cherokee particles, would generally be a superior man to him who was destitute of these accomplishments. If astrology were taught at our Universities, the young man who cast nativities best would generally turn out a superior man.
Page 237 - But Johnson took no notice of the challenge. He had learned, both from his own observation and from literary history, in which he was deeply read, that the place of books in the public estimation is fixed, not by what is written about them, but by what is written in them...
Page 293 - I have now read over again all Miss Austen's novels. Charming they are. There are in the world no compositions which approach nearer to perfection."— Macaulay's Journal.
Page 189 - Fortune, that lays in sport the mighty low, Age that to penance turns the joys of youth, Shall leave untouched the gifts which I bestow, The sense of beauty and the thirst of truth. " Of the fair brotherhood who share my grace, I, from thy natal day, pronounce thee free ; And, if for some I keep a nobler place, I keep for none a happier than for thee.
Page 204 - I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.
Page 225 - As soon as Macaulay had finished his rough draft, he began to fill it in at the rate of six sides of foolscap every morning; written in so large a hand, and with such a multitude of erasures, that the whole six pages were, on an average, compressed into two pages of print. This portion he called his 'task,' and he was never quite easy unless he completed it daily.