Lord Macaulay
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Historian and essayist cited for his contrast of modern and historical literary labour.
There is, perhaps, an impression abroad that the influence it exerts increases as history goes on, an impression possibly produced and certainly strengthened by the brilliant passages in which Lord Macaulay contrasted the well-paid literary labour of his own day with the miseries of the literary hack of Grub Street a century before.
Lord Macaulay, in speaking of Irish cattle-stealing, sometimes, I must own, seems to me to express himself as if he thought the practice attributable to some native vice of Irish character;
Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
Historian whose remark on India's poverty is cited and contested.
Lord Macaulay, in contrasting India as the English found it with the impressions of it entertained by European adventurers, has said that it is really a very poor country;