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«In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
demagogue, demagogues, specimen, specimens, vilest
«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.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
| Keywords:
fashionable, supersede, superseded, supersedes, tables, young lady
«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.»
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
(Historian)
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coast, Great Lakes, neighbour, North America, rob, scalp, scalped
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