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" We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. "
The Novels & Tales of the Right Hon. B. Disraeli ...: Venetia. Tancred - Page 224
by Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1866
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 53

1831 - 738 pages
...shown that forbearance, which, under such circumstances, is but common justice. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its...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....
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...shown that for* bearauce, which, under such circumstances, U but common justice. We know no spectacle for their children. The Hoogley every day rolled down thousands of corpses clo |Iu general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels pass with little notice. We read the scandal,...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...shown that forbearance, which, under such circumstances, ia but common justice. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. In general, etopemenls, divorces, and family quarrels pass with little notice, We read the scandal, talk about...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 1102 pages
...shown that forbearance which, under such circumstances, is but common justice. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its...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...
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Venetia: A Novel

Benjamin Disraeli - 1870 - 162 pages
...lo*t my money, and perhaps to-morrow I shall lose my arm. It seems we are not in luck." CHAPTER XVIII. IT has been well observed, that no spectacle is so...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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 131

English literature - 1871 - 606 pages
...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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Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales: Venetia

Benjamin Disraeli - English fiction - 1871 - 508 pages
...lost my money, and perhaps tomorrow I shall lose my arm. It seems we are not in luck. CHAPTER XVIII. IT has been well observed, that no spectacle is so ridiculous as tke British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. In general, elopements, divorces, and...
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Familiar Quotations ...

John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked. On Moore's Life of Lord Byron. We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality. ibid. From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness,...
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Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1877 - 898 pages
...forbearance which, under such circumstances, is but common justice. We know no spectacle so ridiculous M the British public in one of its periodical fits of...divorces, and family quarrels, pass with little notice. W» read the scandal, talk about it for a day, and forget it. But once in six or seven years our virtue...
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Novels and tales. (Hughenden ed.)

Benjamin Disraeli (earl of Beaconsfield.) - 1881 - 504 pages
...lost my money, and perhaps tomorrow I shall lose my arm. It seems we are not im luck. CHAPTER XVIII. IT has been well observed, that no spectacle is so...public in one of its periodical fits of morality, lu general, elopements, divorces, and family quarrels pass with little notice. We read the scandal,...
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