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...
bridge either hand stand
Now who will stand on either hand / And keep the bridge with me?
retirement grief meditation
Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.
forth gate looked sentinel
The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night.
propensity venture
A propensity which, for want of a better name, we will venture to christen Boswellism.
deserted felt peculiar towards whom
He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.
imagination advancement creation
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.
lasts tables produce
I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
mixtures portraits painting
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
humor government broken
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.
oratory persuasion power-of-persuasion
The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion.
errors reason said
We cannot absolutely prove that those are in error who tell us that society has reached a turning point, that we have seen our best days. But so said all before us, and with just as much apparent reason.
benevolence politeness wells
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
parent forever sound
Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
clamor toleration sects
Every sect clamors for toleration when it is down.