EBOOK Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches - Volume 4 - Baron Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay

EBOOK Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches - Volume 4
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Autor: Baron Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay

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ISBN: 9782819938125
EAN: 84AC3DE4EB
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Stron: 821
Data wydania: 2010
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pubOne.info present you this new edition. It was most reluctantly that I determined to suspend, during the last autumn, a work which is the business and the pleasure of my life, in order to prepare these Speeches for publication; and it is most reluctantly that I now give them to the world. Even if I estimated their oratorical merit much more highly than I do, I should not willingly have revived, in the quiet times in which we are so happy as to live, the memory of those fierce contentions in which too many years of my public life were passed. Many expressions which, when society was convulsed by political dissensions, and when the foundations of government were shaking, were heard by an excited audience with sympathy and applause, may, now that the passions of all parties have subsided, be thought intemperate and acrimonious. It was especially painful to me to find myself under the necessity of recalling to my own recollection, and to the recollection of others, the keen encounters which took place between the late Sir Robert Peel and myself. Some parts of the conduct of that eminent man I must always think deserving of serious blame

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