The book Miscellaneous Writings And Speeches — volume 2 was written by author Macaulay Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Here you can read free online of Miscellaneous Writings And Speeches — volume 2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Miscellaneous Writings And Speeches — volume 2 a good or bad book?
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A great man has gone fromamong us, full of years, of good works, and of deserved honours. In someof the highest departments in which the human intellect can exertitself he has not left his equal or his second behind him. From hiscontemporaries he has had, according to the usual lot, more or less thanjustice. He has had blind flatterers and blind detractors--flattererswho could see nothing but perfection in his style, detractors whocould see nothing but nonsense in his matter. He will now have j...udges. Posterity will pronounce its calm and impartial decision; and thatdecision will, we firmly believe, place in the same rank with Galileo, and with Locke, the man who found jurisprudence a gibberish and left ita science. Never was there a literary partnership so fortunate as thatof Mr Bentham and M. Dumont. The raw material which Mr Bentham furnishedwas most precious; but it was unmarketable. He was, assuredly, at once agreat logician and a great rhetorician. But the effect of his logic wasinjured by a vicious arrangement, and the effect of his rhetoric by avicious style.
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