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...
acre utopia
An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia
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.
imagination advancement creation
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.
benevolence politeness wells
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
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.
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.
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.
tides may tidy
A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.