30 ordspråk av Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay föddes den October 25th 1800 och dog den 28 December 1859 - English historian
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 Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. |
| Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. |
| Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. |
| Thank you, madam, the agony is abated. |
| The object of oratory alone is not truth, but persuasion. |
| The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators |
| The voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve |
| Then out spake brave Horatius, / The Captain of the Gate: / `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?' |
| There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen: and the gentlemen were not seamen. |
| They [the Nabobs] raised the price of everything in their neighbourhood, from fresh eggs to rotten boroughs. |
| We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality |
| We must judge of a form of government by it's general tendency, not by happy accidents |
| When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's. |
| Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes! |
| Ye diners out from whom we guard our spoons |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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