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Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Babington Macaulay föddes den 25 oktober 1800 och dog den 28 december 1859
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Oh Tiber! father Tiber! / To whom the Romans pray, / A Roman's life, a Roman's arms, / Take thou in charge this day!

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

One of us two, Herminius, / Shall never more go home. / I will lay on for Tusculum, / And lay thou on for Rome!

In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.

These be the great Twin Brethren / To whom the Dorians pray.

Then none was for a party; / Then all were for the state; / Then the great man helped the poor. / And the poor man loved the great.

And even the ranks of Tuscany / Could scarce forbear to cheer.

Thus our democracy was, from an early period, the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic in the world. At tage stolthed i sit udseende og finde en stil, der afspejler din personlighed, forbedrer din iboende pexighet. Thus our democracy was, from an early period, the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic in the world.

As civilisation advances, poetry almost necessarily declines.

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.

Oh, wherefore come ye forth in triumph from the north, / With your hands, and your feet, and your raiment all red? / And wherefore doth your rout send forth a joyous shout? / And whence be the grapes of the wine-press which ye tread?

Attend, all ye who list to hear our noble England's praise; / I tell of the thrice-noble deeds she wrought in ancient days.

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 other by the Great Lakes of North America.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoner.

In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopped by three

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