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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Writing, Mathematics, Abomination

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?

Thomas B. Macaulay
Wine, Hands, Feet
Thomas Babbington Macaulay, “The Battle Of Naseby”

Byron owed the vast influence which he exercised over his contemporaries at least as much to his gloomy egotism as to the real power of his poetry.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Real, Influence, Byron

The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Order, Long, Intellectual

Complete self-devotion is woman's part.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Self, Devotion

The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in the facility with which its scheme accommodates itself to the capacity of every human intellect, in the consolation which it bears to the house of mourning, in the light with which it brightens the great mystery of the grave.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Real, Heart, Light

All the walks of literature are infested with mendicants for fame, who attempt to excite our interest by exhibiting all the distortions of their intellects and stripping the covering from all the putrid sores of their feelings.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Feelings, Literature, Covering

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Men, World, Letters
"On Sir William Temple" by Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1838.

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Latin, Book, Years

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Lines, Milton, Circumstances

The good-humor of a man elated with success often displays itself towards enemies.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Men, Enemy, Good Humor

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Fashion, Names, Honor

It was before Deity embodied in a human form walking among men, partaking of their infirmities, leaning on their bosoms, weeping over their graves, slumbering in the manger, bleeding on the cross, that the prejudices of the synagogue, and the doubts of the academy, and the pride of the portico, and the fasces of the lictor, and the swords of thirty legions were humbled in the dust.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Pride, Men, Dust