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Critical and historical essays, contributed to The Edinburgh review - Page 235
by Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1854
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 438 pages
...borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a bad man. A.person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage which, while it indicated deference...
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Literary and Historical Memorials of London, Volume 1

John Heneage Jesse - 1847 - 478 pages
...so borne himself, that all had feared him, most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory except virtue. He looked like a...gloomy, a mouth of inflexible decision, a face pale and wan but serene, on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta,...
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Readings in science and literature

Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...had so borne himself, that all had feared him, most had loved him, and hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a...inflexible decision ; — a face pale and worn, but serene ; — such was the aspect with which the great proconsul presented himself to his judges. His counsel...
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McGuffey's Newly Revised Rhetorical Guide: Or, Fifth Reader of the Eclectic ...

William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 pages
...him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. A person, small and + emaciated, yet deriving dignity...of inflexible decision ; a face, pale and worn, but on which a great and well-balanced mind was legibly written : such formed the aspect with which the...
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The advanced prose and poetical reader, by A.W. Buchan

Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 pages
...had so borne himself, that all had feared him, most had loved him, and hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a...inflexible decision ; — a face pale and worn, but serene ; — such was the aspect with which the great proconsul presented himself to his judges. His counsel...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854 - 354 pages
...borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a great man, and not like a had man. A person small and emaciated, yet deriving dignity from a carriage which, while it indicated...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with ...

William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 pages
...him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. A person, small and ^emaciated, yet deriving dignity..."•"inflexible decision; a face, pale and worn, but on which a great and well-balanced mind was legibly written: such formed the aspect with which the...
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A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...borne himself, that all had feared him, that most had loved him, and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a...inflexible decision, a face pale and worn, but serene, — such was the aspect with which the great proconsul presented himself to his judges. His counsel...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 530 pages
...himself that all had fe.ired him, that most had loved him, 5 and that hatred itself could deny him no title to glory, except virtue. He looked like a...which, while it indicated deference to the court, 10 indicated also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual forehead, a brow...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1863 - 528 pages
...carriage which, while it indicated deference to the court, 10 indicated also habitual self- possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual forehead,...inflexible decision, a face pale and worn, but serene, — such was the aspect with which the great proconsul presented himself to his judges. 15 The charges...
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