We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. In general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels, pass with little notice. We read the scandal, talk about it for a day, and forget it. But once in... Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems - Page 613by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 2469 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1831 - 738 pages
...separation, all those who knew as little about the matter then as we know about it now, had shown that forbearance, which, under such circumstances, is but...quarrels, pass with little notice. We read the scandal, telk about it for a day, and forget it. But once in six or seven years, our virtue becomes outrageous.... | |
| 1835 - 932 pages
...separation, all those who knew as little about the matter then as we know about it now, had shown that forbearance, which, under such circumstances, is but...so ridiculous as the British public in one of its jR-riodical Qts of morality. In general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels, pass with little... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...matter then as we know about it now, had shown that for* bearauce, which, under such circumstances, U loud wailings implored a handful of rice for their...Hoogley every day rolled down thousands of corpses clo |Iu general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels pass with little notice. We read the scandal,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...separation, all those who knew as little about the matter then as we know about it now, had shown that forbearance, which, under such circumstances, is but...cannot suffer the laws of religion and decency to b* violated. We mast make a stand against vice. We must teach libertines, that the Eiglish people appreciate... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...matter then as we know about it now, had shown that forbearance, which, under such circumstances, ia but common justice. We know no spectacle so ridiculous...one of its periodical fits of morality. In general, etopemenls, divorces, and family quarrels pass with little notice, We read the scandal, talk about... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 1102 pages
...separation, all those who knew as little about the matter then as we know about it now had shown that forbearance which, under such circumstances, is but...general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels, pasa with little notice. We read the scandal, talk about it for a day, and forget it. But once in six... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1861 - 500 pages
...separation, all those who knew as little about the matter then as we know about it now had shown that forbearance which, under such circumstances, is but...We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British jMblic in one of its periodical fits of morality. In general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels,... | |
| Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di) - Poets, English - 1869 - 676 pages
...to form, an opinion on an affair so imperfectly known, Mr. Macaulay continues in these words:— " We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British...six or seven years our virtue becomes outrageous. We can not suffer the laws of religion and decency to be violated. We must make a stand against vice.... | |
| Benjamin Disraeli - 1870 - 162 pages
...my arm. It seems we are not in luck." CHAPTER XVIII. IT has been well observed, that no spectacle is so ridiculous as the British public, in one of its...general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels, pase with little notice. We read the scandal, talk about it for a day, and forget it. But once in six... | |
| English literature - 1871 - 606 pages
...raised against Byron ? The most brilliant of our essayists and historians has declared that he knew no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. ' In genera], elopements, divorces, and family quarrels pass with little notice. We read the scandal, talk... | |
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