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Speeches by Lord Macaulay with his Minute on Indian Education

1935

To reason thus would be to forgzt that Macaulay was by birthright an historian and the historian is one for whom the past keeps something of the familiar triviality of the present and the present already has some of the shadowy magnificence of the past. [...] Enough is here reprinted Io sh3w the spirit in which Macmlay approached the problem and if the spirit is in one of its aspects English of 1835 in all the rest it is Italian of the Quattrocento unrestrained by the necessity of paying a decent reverence to the practices of an established religion. [...] The proceedings which my honorable friend has mentioned no more prove that by the ancient constitution of the realm this House ought to be a tool of the king and of the aristocracy than the Benevolences and the Shipmoney prove their own legality or than those unjustifiable arrests which took place long after the ratification of the great Charter and even after the Petition of Right prcve tha [...] The honorable and learned gentleman has compared the conduct of the present Ministers to that of those odious tools of power who towards the close of the reign of Charles the Second sei..ed the charters of the Whig Coporations. [...] A Speech delivered in the House of Commons on the 5th of July 1831 ON Tuesday the fourth of July 1831 Lord John Russell moved the second reading of the Bill to amend the representtion of the people in England and Wales.
education
Pages
385
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.145158
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xxiii G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the 2nd of March 1831
1-84 G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the 27th of February 1832
85-87 G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in a Committee of the House of Commons on the 28th of February 1832
88-96 G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the 6th of February 1833
97-113 G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the 10th of July 1833
114-155 G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the 5th of July 1841
156-173 G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in a Committee of the House of Commons on the 6th of April 1842
174-183 G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the 3rd of May 1842
184-197 G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the 9th of March 1843
198-219 G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the 6th of June 1844
220-236 G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the 14th of April 1845
237-253 G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the 23rd of April 1845
254-277 G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the 22nd of May 1846
278-299 G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the 19th of April 1847
300-326 G.M. Young view
A Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the 1st of June 1853
327-344 G.M. Young view
Minute of the 2nd of February 1835
345-361 G.M. Young view
Backmatter
i-i G.M. Young view

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