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...
justice quiet rich
The chief-justice was rich, quiet, and infamous.
destiny men age
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!-To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!
men order america
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each other by the great lakes of North America.
business
The business of everybody is the business of nobody.
love feet deformity
He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.
useless maxims
Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.
order long intellectual
The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.
running country europe
There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.
criticism may poet
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.
democracy aristocracy periods
Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.
evil purpose sake
Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly. Yet monopoly is an evil. For the sake of the good we must submit to the evil; but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good.
race purpose littles
We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.
book believe school
It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England.
dominant
A dominant religion is never ascetic.