"His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar."
"Thus then stands the case: it is good that authors should be remunerated and the least exceptionable way of remunerating them is by a monopoly, yet monopoly is an evil for the sake of the good. We must submit to the evil, but the evil ought not to last a day longer than is necessary for the purpose of securing the good."
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Lays of Ancient Rome; available from Project Gutenberg; [1] (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/847)
The History of England from the Accession of James II; available in five volumes from Project Gutenberg; [2] (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/1468), [3] (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2439), [4] (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2612), [5] (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2613), [6] (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2614)
Critical and Historical Essays, edited by Alexander James Grieve; available in two volumes from Project Gutenberg; [7] (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2332), [8] (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2333)
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, available in four volumes from Project Gutenberg; [9] (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2167), [10] (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2168), [11] (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2169), [12] (http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/2170)
Machiavelli; online at bartleby.com; [13] (http://www.bartleby.com/27/24.html)
The son of Zachary Macaulay, a British colonial governor and abolitionist, Macaulay was born in Leicestershire and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Macaulay was appointed Secretary to the Board of Control, which required him to visit India.
Serving on the Supreme Council of India between 1834 and 1838 Macaulay was instrumental in creating the foundations of bilingual colonial India, by convincing the council and parliament to close schools and colleges teaching in Sanskrit or Arabic and instead to teach English to "natives" and provide education in English only.
Many formerly held that the MacAulays derived their origin from the ancient earls of Lennox, and that their ancestor was Maurice, brother of Earl Maldouin and son of Aulay, whose name appears in the Ragmans Roll as having sworn fealty to Edward I in 1296.
A tribe of MacAulays were settled at Uig, Ross-shire, in the south-west of the island of Lewis, and many were the feuds which they had with the Morrisons, or clan Alle Mhuire, the tribe of the servant or disciple of Marg, who were located at Ness, at the north end of the same island.
The sheriffs son, Aulay, MacAulay, though a member of the Episcopal Church, was by no means a Jacobite, but on the contrary, at the Revolution in 1689, raised a company of fencibles for the cause of William and Mary.
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