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Macaulay argues that “the main end” of government is the protection of persons and property (1839)
We consider the primary end of government as a purely temporal end, the protection of the persons...
Macaulay argues that politicians are less interested in the economic value of public works to the citizens than they are in their own reputation, embezzlement and"jobs for the boys" (1830)
Can we find any such connexion in the case of a public work executed by a government? If it is us...
Macaulay wittily denounces a tyrannical priest as being an intermediate grub between sycophant and oppressor (1837)
In the thirteenth year of his age he (Francis Bacon) was entered at Trinity College, Cambridge. T...
Macaulay and Bunyan on the evils of swearing and playing hockey on Sunday (1830)
He does not appear to have been a drunkard. He owns, indeed, that, when a boy, he never spoke wit...
Lord Macaulay writes a devastating review of Southey’s Colloquies in which the Poet Laureate’s ignorance of the real condition of the working class in England is exposed (1830)
[T]he labouring classes of this island, though they have their grievances and distresses, some pr...