Thomas Babington Macaulay: Taxes to effect wild schemes of foreign conquest
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war Thomas Babington Macaulay: Selections on war ==== Thomas Babington MacaulaySir William Temple There is a vile phrase of which bad historians are exceedingly fond, “the dignity of history.” One writer is in possession of some anecdotes which would illustrate most […]