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...
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Now who will stand on either hand / And keep the bridge with me?
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Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.
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He . . . felt towards those whom he had deserted that peculiar malignity which has, in all ages, been characteristic of apostates.
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The sentinel on Whitehall gate looked forth into the night.
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From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics, compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness, in which the two great commandments were, to hate your neighbor, and to love your neighbor's wife
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A propensity which, for want of a better name, we will venture to christen Boswellism.
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Obadiah Bind - their - kings - in - chains - and -their - nobles - with - links - of - iron.
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Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action
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I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something that shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.
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The real object of the drama is the exhibition of human character.
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Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.
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The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman.
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The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are not those in which a little of the exaggeration of fictitious narrative is judiciously employed. Something is lost in accuracy; but much is gained in effect. The fainter lines are neglected; but the great characteristic features are imprinted on the mind forever.
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A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.