They [the Nabobs] raised the price of everything in their neighbourhood, from fresh eggs to rotten boroughs. -Thomas Babington Macaulay

 

They [the Nabobs] raised the price of everything in their neighbourhood, from fresh eggs to rotten boroughs.


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By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen: and the gentlemen were not seamen.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

And lastly, let us provide in our Constitution for its revision at stated periods.

Thomas Babington Macaulay