Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas B. Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PCwas a British historian and Whig politician. He wrote extensively as an essayist and reviewer; his books on British history have been hailed as literary masterpieces. He was a member of the Babington family by virtue of his aunt's marriage to Thomas Babington...
parent forever sound
Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
clamor toleration sects
Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.
beard emblems piety
Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.
imagination miracle mind
This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.
equal
Shakespeare has had neither equal nor second.
democracy aristocracy periods
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.
wages tests england
But the time will come when New England will be as thickly peopled as old England. Wages will be as low, and will fluctuate as much with you as with us. You will have your Manchesters and Birminghams; and, in those Manchesters and Birminghams, hundreds of thousands of artisans will assuredly be sometimes out of work. Then your institutions will be fairly brought to the test.
time cost pruning
The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it - The Territory is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.
trust doctrine public-trust
The English doctrine that all power is a trust for the public good.
inspire infidelity world
Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action; it inspires no enthusiasm; it has no missionaries, no crusades, no martyrs.
estates gallery realms
The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm.
rakes scholar
He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.
tides may tidy
A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
strength character blue
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.