More from Thomas Babington Macaulay

  1. She [the Catholic Church] thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
  2. In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the great Abbey which has during many …
  3. She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast s…
  4. Thus, then, stands the case. It is good, that authors should be remunerated; and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a m…
  5. Every schoolboy knows who imprisoned Montezuma, and who strangled Atahualpa.
  6. I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young …
  7. Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
  8. In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel and red men scalped each…

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