Critical And Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review [microform]
Critical And Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review [microform]
Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron
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In his library, all his rare powers were under the guidance of an honest ambition, of an enlarged philanthropy, of a sincere love of truth. There, no temptation drew him away from the right course. Thomas Aquinas could pay no fees. Duns Scotus could con- fer no peerages. The Master of the Sentences had no rich reversions in his gift. Far different was the situation of the great philosopher when he came forth from his study and his laboratory to mingle with the crowd which filled the galleries o...f White- hall. In all that crowd there was no man equally qualified to render great and lasting services to man- kind. But in all that crowd there was not a heart more set on things which no man ought to suffer to be necessary to his happiness, on things which can often be obtained only by the sacrifice of integrity and honour. To be the leader of the human race in the career of improvement, to found on the ruins of * De Augmentis, Lib. 6. Cap. 1. Digitized by Google 330 LORD BACON, ancient int-ellectual dynasties a more prosperous and a more enduring empire, to be revered by the latest generations as the most illustrious among the bene- factors of mankind, all this was within his reach.
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