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
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.
tides may tidy
A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
cent five heard interest natural per
We have heard it said that five per cent is the natural interest of money.