John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay. (1800–1859) (continued) |
| resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall. |
| On Warren Hastings. 1841. |
| 6150 |
| 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. |
| On Frederic the Great. 1842. |
| 6151 |
| 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. |
| On Frederic the Great. 1842. |
| 6152 |
| Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely. |
| Southey’s Colloquies. |
| 6153 |
| Nothing is so galling to a people, not broken in from the birth, as a paternal or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear. |
| Southey’s Colloquies. |
| 6154 |
| The gallery in which the reporters sit has become a fourth estate of the realm. |
| On Hallam’s Constitutional History. |
| 6155 |
| Intoxicated with animosity. |
| On Hallam’s Constitutional History. |
| 6156 |
| Those who compare the age in which their lot has fallen with a golden age which exists only in imagination, may talk of degeneracy and decay; but no man who is correctly informed as to the past, will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present. |
| History of England. Vol. i. Chap. i. |
| 6157 |
| I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history. 1 |
| History of England. Vol. i. Chap. i. |
| 6158 |
| There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles II. But the seamen were not gentlemen, and the gentlemen were not seamen. |
| History of England. Vol. i. Chap. ii. |
| Note 1. See Bolingbroke, page 304. [back] |