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 | John McClintock - Bible - 1894 - 1008 pages
...not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot without...our literature, but the zeal with which he labored fur the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty disdain... | |
 | Literature - 1894 - 916 pages
...only to delight, but to »elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life ny private virtues ! And had James the Second no private virtues? Was Oliver Cromwell, his bitteres worki* with which his genius has enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he labored for the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 90 pages
...not only to delight but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot without...calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations and dangers, the deadly hatred which he bore to bigots and tyrants, and the faith which... | |
 | English literature - 1895 - 508 pages
...not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without...calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations and dangers, the deadly hatred which he bore to bigots and tyrants, and the faith which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1895 - 934 pages
...not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life Macaulay""Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay( laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 282 pages
...not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without...enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 256 pages
...not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot, without...enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 298 pages
...to delight, but to elevate and purify. ^Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life orT&B writings of the great poet and patriot, without aspiring...enriched our literature, but the zeal with which he laboured for the public good, the fortitude with which he endured every private calamity, the lofty... | |
 | John Lord - History - 1896 - 518 pages
...not only to delight, but to elevate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot without...calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations and dangers, the deadly hatred which he bore to bigots and tyrants, and the faith which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 122 pages
...not only to delight, but to °levate and purify. Nor do we envy the man who can study either the life or the writings of the great poet and patriot without...public good, the fortitude with which he endured every 5 private calamity, the lofty disdain with which he looked down on temptations and dangers, the deadly... | |
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