This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...and its phrases evenly balanced in length, as, for example, by repeating a preposition: Everywhere flags were flying, bells and music sounding, wine and ale flowing in rivers to the health of him whose return was the return of peace, of law, and of freedom.--Macaulay. He was not to be corrupted either by titles or by ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...and its phrases evenly balanced in length, as, for example, by repeating a preposition: Everywhere flags were flying, bells and music sounding, wine and ale flowing in rivers to the health of him whose return was the return of peace, of law, and of freedom.--Macaulay. He was not to be corrupted either by titles or by money.--Macaulay. As every climate has its peculiar diseases, so every walk of life has its peculiar temptations.--Macaulay. Such a man might fall a victim to power; but truth, and reason, and liberty, would fall with him.--Bolingbroke. History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.--Gibbon. The habits of his early life had accustomed him to bear privation with fortitude, but not to taste pleasure with moderation.--Macaulay. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator.--Macaulay. Note.--Observe, in the last passage, how the balance is obtained by putting the negative clause first. 189. Emphasis is obtained when words at the commencement of a sentence are in contrast to words at the end: The grey old walls were hung with scarlet.--Macaulay. Neither the culprit nor his advocates attracted so much notice as his accusers.--Macaulay. About two thousand ministers of religion, whose conscience did not suffer them to conform, were driven from their benefices in one day.--Macaulay. Thinking thus of mankind, Charles naturally cared very little what they thought of him.--Macaulay. By no people has beauty been so highly esteemed as by the Greeks.--Pater. As it was with the faces of the men of this nobl...
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