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...
intellectual distinction historian
To be a really good historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions.
feelings literature covering
All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.
drama character sight
The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.
freedom government order
As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.
benevolence politeness wells
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
money law would-be
Even the law of gravitation would be brought into dispute were there a pecuniary interest involved.
atheism doctrine philosopher
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.
enemy church liberty
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.
brother party men
Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.
parent forever sound
Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
fate kismet accidents
The Orientals have another word for accident; it is "kismet,"--fate.
order long intellectual
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.
firsts biographers
Boswell is the first of biographers.
clamor toleration sects
Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.