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...
sound praise
The sweeter sound of woman's praise.
queens play evil
Queen Mary had a way of interrupting tattle about elopements, duels, and play debts, by asking the tattlers, very quietly yet significantly, whether they had ever read her favorite sermon--Dr. Tillotson on Evil Speaking.
parent forever sound
Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
brother party men
Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.
book men ignorant
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
enemy church liberty
The Church is the handmaid of tyranny and the steady enemy of liberty.
cutting sea fishing
Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing there! What is my head cut off? A sounding sea; What is my tail cut off? A rushing river; And in their mingling depths I fearless play, Parent of sweetest sounds, yet mute forever.
atheism doctrine philosopher
With respect to the doctrine of a future life, a North American Indian knows just as much as any ancient or modern philosopher.
religious errors atheism
The doctrine which, from the very first origin of religious dissensions, has been held by bigots of all sects, when condensed into a few words and stripped of rhetorical disguise, is simply this: I am in the right, and you are in the wrong. When you are the stronger, you ought to tolerate me; for it is your duty to tolerate truth. But when I am the stronger I shall persecute you; for it is my duty to persecute error.
mean class people
... it is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.
past men views
No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
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.