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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There are countries in which it would be as absurd to establish popular governments as to abolish all the restraints in a school or to unite all the strait-waistcoats in a madhouse.
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Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.
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No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.
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To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.
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There is no country in Europe which is so easy to over-run as Spain; there is no country which it is more difficult to conquer.
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Sense can support herself handsomely in most countries on some eighteen pence a day; but for fantasy, planets and solar systems, will not suffice.
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At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.
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Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another country of greater resources.
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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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Was none who would be foremost To lead such dire attack; But those behind cried "Forward!" And those before cried "Back!
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History begins in novel and ends in essay.
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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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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