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...
country men may
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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A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.
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In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.
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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve!
government liberty may
It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
community liberty may
There is surely no contradiction in saying that a certain section of the community may be quite competent to protect the persons and property of the rest, yet quite unfit to direct our opinions, or to superintend our private habits.
may reform preserves
Reform, that we may preserve.
mother may dear-friend
In after-life you may have friends--fond, dear friends; but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you which none but a mother bestows.
history may incidents
A history in which every particular incident may be true may on the whole be false.
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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!
history ends novel
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.