Speeches of ... Thomas Babington Macaulay, corrected by himself |
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Side 9 - ... salvation, take counsel, not of prejudice, not of party spirit, not of the ignominious pride of a fatal consistency, but of history, of reason, of the ages which are past, of the signs of this most portentous time. Pronounce in a manner worthy of the expectation with which this great debate has been anticipated, and of the long remembrance which it will leave behind.
Side 210 - While industry is suspended, while the plough lies in the furrow, while the exchange is silent, while no smoke ascends from the factory, a process is going on quite as important to the wealth of nations, as any process which is performed on more busy days. Man, the machine of machines, the machine compared with which all the contrivances of the Watts and the Arkwrights are worthless, is repairing and winding up, so that he returns to his labours on the Monday with clearer intellect, with livelier...
Side 74 - To have found a great people sunk in the lowest depths of slavery and superstition, to have so ruled them as to have made them desirous and capable of all the privileges of citizens, would indeed be a title to glory all our own.
Side 92 - Loyalty Is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game ; True as the dial to the sun, Although it be not shined upon.
Side 41 - Commons for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales.
Side 71 - I believe that no country ever stood so much in need of a code of laws as India ; and I believe also that there never was a country in which the want might so easily be supplied. I said that there were many points of analogy between the state of that country after the fall of the Mogul power, and the state of Europe after the fall of the Roman empire. In one respect the analogy is very striking. As there were in Europe then, so there are in India now, several systems of law widely differing from...
Side 72 - It is time that the magistrate should know what law he is to administer, that the subject should know under what law he is to live.
Side 74 - The sceptre may pass away from us. Unforeseen accidents may derange our most profound schemes of policy. Victory may be inconstant to our arms. But there are triumphs which are followed by no reverse. There is an empire exempt from all natural causes of decay. Those triumphs are the pacific triumphs of reason over barbarism ; that empire is the imperishable empire of our arts and our morals, our literature and our laws.
Side 17 - Althorpe moved the second reading of the Bill to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales.
Side 135 - Monday the house would resolve itself into a committee of the whole house, to take into consideration the state of the nation.