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  Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Babington (or Babbington) Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (October 25, 1800 – December 28, 1859) was a nineteenth-century English poet, historian and Whig politician.
The son of Zachary Macaulay, a British colonial governor and abolitionist, Macaulay was born in Leicestershire and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge.
Macaulay argued that copyright is a monopoly and as such has generally negative effects on society.
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, English historian, essayist and politician, was born at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, on the 25th of October 1800.
Macaulay's appointment to India occurred at the critical moment when the government of the company was being superseded by government by the Crown.
Macaulay, the historian no less than the politician, is, however, always on the side of justice, fairness for the weak agaihst the strong, the oppressed against the oppressor.
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Taine was perhaps the first to draw attention to the manner in which Macaulay in his History used apparently random anecdotes, illustrations, and allusions to reinforce his major themes.
When he devised as a means of exposition the declamatory disquisition, a summary of the arguments that might have been used by various parties to sustain their feelings at critical junctures, he did so because he felt he needed to have an equivalent for the speeches employed by the ancient historians.
Not only was Macaulay very conscious, then, of the importatlce of scaffolding in historical writing -- but he was indeed a consummate master of the art of draping his narrative around that scaffolding in sUch a way that the latter remained for the most part invisible.
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay Essay
Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote histories, polemics, book reviews, and government reports rather than essays on subjects such as friendship or his own position in the world.
Macaulay is sometimes called the first Victorian because he tames early 19th-century enthusiasm for the sublime, the mystic, and the distant by his practical sense of what ordinary humans can fathom.
Macaulay joyfully reels off the epic names and places of Celt, Saxon, and Norman until, presumably, we arrive at the First Reform Bill in 1832, when all is perfected.Macaulay's judgments are distinct even in anonymous essays he wrote for the Edinburgh Review.
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 Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
On his return to England, Macaulay devoted himself to writing history, but returned to public office as secretary of war (1839–41), paymaster of the forces (1846–47), and member of Parliament (1839–47, 1852–56).
In 1857 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Macaulay of Rothley.
Macaulay’s greatest work and one of the great works of the 19th cent.
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 MaThomas Macaulay
Thomas Babington Macaulay, eldest child of Zachary Macaulay, was born in Leicestershire on 25th October, 1800.
Macaulay became very interested in utilitarianism and was influenced by the ideas of Jeremy Bentham and Joseph Priestley.
In the general election that followed the passing of the 1832 Reform Act, Macaulay was the Whig candidate for the newly established parliamentary constituency of Leeds.
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England
  Thomas Babington Macaulay was born on October 25th, 1800, at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, as the son of former African Colonial Governor and anti-slavery philanthropist Zachary Macaulay.
Macaulay began to draw notice through the quality of his speeches including one delivered in support of the dramatically contentious parliamentary Reform Bill in March 1831 that was praised by Sir Robert Peel as containing portions "as beautiful as anything I have ever heard or read."
These weaknesses stem largely from Macaulay's approach to his subject which was that of a definite advocate of "progress." Macaulay's view of progress being closely aligned with an interpretation of history that saw many real achievements in British and World history as resulting from policies pursued by the Whig political interest.
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 Thomas B. Macaulay
In one of the most famous episodes, in 1829, Macaulay he tore apart James Mill's argument for democracy on utilitarian grounds.
Macaulay's 1830 critique of Southey's woolly socialism and imperialism, stands as a classic of laissez-faire Whiggism.
In 1834, he took a job at the Supreme Council of India and became heavily involved in the redrafting the Indian penal code and the promotion of education (in Indian affairs, he was much influenced by the now-reconciled Mill).
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay Summary
Thomas Babington Macaulay was a public figure whose writings were inseparable from the rest of his career.
Thomas Babington Macaulay was a critic, member of Parliament, cabinet minister, member of the Supreme Council of India, author of the third most popular book of poems in the nineteenth century after John Keble's The Christian Year (1827) and Tennyson's P...
Thomas Babington (or Babbington) Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC(October 25 1800 – December 28 1859) was a nineteenth-century British poet, historian and Whig politician.
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Macaulay was, therefore, the spokesman for Victorian material advancement; but he was correspondingly somewhat blind to the social and economic evils that followed upon the industrial revolution.
Thomas Babington Macaulay was born at Rothley Temple, Leicestershire, on Oct. 25, 1800.
In it Macaulay's main concern was to defend Milton as a champion of civil and intellectual liberty against tyranny and despotism.
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 Macaulay, Thomas Babington, Nigeria, Anglican
Macaulay was the eldest of the three sons of Ojo Oriare, a recaptive from Ore Aganju in Ikirun district, and from Oyo, a granddaughter of the founder of the Ile-Ogo.
Thomas Macaulay was, like very many children of recaptives, brought up by the CMS.
Macaulay was sent there and put in charge of the Christian Institution, a school set up for industrial and practical training in particular.
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 Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron 1800-1859, English historian and author, b.
In India, 1834-38, as a member of the supreme council of the East India Company he reformed the Indian educational system and composed a legal code for the colony.
On his return to England, Macaulay devoted himself to writing history, but returned to public office as secretary of war (1839-41), paymaster of the forces (1846-47), and member of Parliament (1839-47, 1852-56).
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 The History of England - Thomas Babington Macaulay - Penguin Group (USA)
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) won instantaneous and outstanding success in prose and poetry, in politics and oratory.
Though the theme of his History is clearly defined - the 1688 Revolution and the reign of William III which effectively consolidated that Revolution - it succeeds in presenting Macaulay's interpretation of the whole course of English history.
He possessed an unerring grasp of political reality and he firmly reasserted the primacy of politics in the historical process as the essential motor of social change.
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 Confessions of a Macaulay Fan - Thomas Babington Macaulay Reason - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Macaulay has a fair claim to being the most influential of the British classical liberals, and few would dispute that he's the most fun to read.
What propels the reader of his history through the long battle between court and country, between the party of state prerogative and the party of liberty, is the way Macaulay gets you to root for the latter much as one roots for a sports team.
History, Macaulay once wrote, is "made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men," and those who idealize English institutions are likely to squirm at his portraits.
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 Remembering Thomas Babington Macaulay by Gary Galles
Macaulay is most famous for his History of England, the most popular book of its kind ever published in that country.
The statist presumptions that Thomas Babington Macaulay exposed, particularly in Southey’s Colloquies on Society, still infect the beliefs and arguments of many today, despite an absence of logic or evidence in support of them.
Bad ideas may never die, but for those who, unlike those in government, refuse to rely on coercion to force their will on others, the power of decisive counter-arguments and evidence are the only weapons that can win such a war.
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 BARON THOMAS BABINGTON... - Online Information article about BARON THOMAS BABINGTON...
London tables; but when Macaulay made his debut witty conversation was studied and cultivated as it has ceased to be in the more busy age which has succeeded.
Babington and Macaulay, and the son now saw himself compelled to See also:
Roebuck and to Praed." In 1838 Macaulay and his sister Hannah, who had married Charles Trevelyan in 1834, returned to England.
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay, Lord Macaulay   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Thomas Babington Macaulay was educated at private schools and at Trinity College, Cambridge where he won several poetry prizes.
He was elected a fellow of Trinity in 1824 and it was through his political articles, essays, and speeches on behalf of the Whigs which brought him early public recognition.
His poetry is epic in style, the best example of which probably being Horatius from the Lays of Ancient Rome (1842) which blends erudite scholarship with dramatic narrative and stirring prose.
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 The Journals of Thomas Babington Macaulay, published by Pickering & Chatto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
This five-volume critical edition presents the lively and candid diary of Thomas Macaulay, Victorian statesman, historian and author of The History of England.
Spanning the period 1838 to 1859, the journal is the longest work from Macaulay’s pen to remain unpublished.
Macaulay was acutely aware of the verdict of posterity and never published anything he had not carefully revised and polished.
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 Cordula's Web. Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Babington (or Babbington) Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, PC (October 25, 1800 December 28, 1859) was a nineteenth-century English poet, historian and Whig politician.
Some of Thomas Babington Macaulay's works from Project Gutenberg.
Thomas Babington Macaulay's section in the DMOZ Open Directory.
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 Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): Essay On Machiavelli, 1850
Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was the son of Zachary Macaulay, a Scotsman whose experience in the West Indies had made him an ardent Abolitionist.
Thomas was an infant prodigy, and the extraordinary memory which is borne witness to in his writings was developed at an early age.
The essay on Machiavelli belongs to Macaulay's earlier period, and illustrates his mastery of material that might seem to lie outside of his usual field.
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 Mises Economics Blog: Remembering Thomas Babington Macaulay
One of the best writers of the old liberal school was Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800-1859), the Whig historian, essayist and statesman.
Macaulay maintained a close relationship to many of the most hard-core of the classical liberals of his time.
Posted by: Kenneth R. Gregg at October 25, 2005 08:52 PM Addendum: Oh, forgot to mention that Macaulay was one of the founders of the Anti-Slavery Society.
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 Modern History Sourcebook: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): On Empire and Education
The path of duty is plain before us: and it is also the path of wisdom, of national prosperity, of national honor.
From Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Speech in Parliament on the Government of India Bill, 10 July 1833," Macaulay, Prose and Poetry, selected by G.M. Young (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957), pp.
From Thomas Babington Macaulay, "Minute of 2 February 1835 on Indian Education," Macaulay, Prose and Poetry, selected by G. Young (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1957), pp-721-24,729.
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 AALBC.com's Guide to African American Books
Macaulay's History of England: From the accession of James II : in four volumes (Everyman's library)
Essay on Johnson,: Together with passages from Boswell's Johnson, and selections from Johnson's works; edited with a life of Macaulay, notes, glossary, and aids to study, (The Academy classics)
Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays: With a Memoir and Index (The Works of Lord Macaulay)
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 The San Antonio College LitWeb Thomas Babington Macaulay Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Macaulay's History from LibriVox (a work in progress).
John Clive, Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian.
George Otto Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Macaulay.
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes/Quotations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes 1-14 out of 14
The measure of a man's character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
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Thomas Babington Macaulay (or Thomas Babbington Macaulay) (October 25, 1800 - December 28, 1859) was a nineteenth century English poet and politician.
He is credited with the term Macaulay's Children, which is used to refer to people born of Indian ancestry who adopt Westen Cultureas a lifestyle.
The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, available in four volumes from Project Gutenberg; [9], [10], [11], [12]
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 Thomas Babington Macaulay, his life, writings, and connections with India
Thomas Babington Macaulay, his life, writings, and connections with India
even Lord Ellenborough may be better known to our grand-children by Macaulay's oration on the gates of Somnauth than by the noise of his own deeds, or the echo of his own eloquence.
we owe to Macaulay's Indian experience two of the most brilliant essays in the English language....
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