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Thomas B. Macaulay
10 quotes
“The history of nations, in the sense in which I use the word, is often best studied in works not professedly historical.”
Thomas B. Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.”
Thomas B. Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.”
Thomas B. Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.”
Thomas B. Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall.”
Thomas B. Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of this haughty, vigilant, resolute, sagacious blue-stocking, half Mithridates and half Trissotin, bearing up against a world in arms, with an ounce of poison in one pocket and a quire of bad verses in the other.”
Thomas B. Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.”
Thomas B. Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have not the Chancellor's encyclopedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon. He _half_ knows everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.”
Thomas B. Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his gods?”
Thomas B. Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.”
Thomas B. Macaulay (1800–1859) said by 1859 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source