# Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 Author: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859 Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2170 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Miscellaneous+Writings+and+Speeches+Macaulay&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary It was most reluctantly that I determined to suspend, during the last autumn, a work which is the business and the pleasure of my life, in order to prepare these Speeches for publication; and it is most reluctantly that I now give them to the world. Even if I estimated their oratorical merit much more highly than I do, I should not willingly have revived, in the quiet times in which we are so happy as to live, the memory of those fierce contentions in which too many years of my public life were passed. Many expressions which, when society was convulsed by political dissensions, and when the foundations of government were shaking, were heard by an excited audience with sympathy and applaus... ## Chapters - [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/29/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 40](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/40/index.md) - [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/23/index.md) - [Chapter 47](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/47/index.md) - [Chapter 39](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/39/index.md) - [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/27/index.md) - [Chapter 37](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/37/index.md) - [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/18/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/21/index.md) - [Chapter 44](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/44/index.md) - [Chapter 38](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/38/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/15/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/14/index.md) - [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/19/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/33/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/31/index.md) - [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/17/index.md) - [Chapter 35](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/35/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 48](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/48/index.md) - [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/26/index.md) - [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/22/index.md) - [Chapter 43](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/43/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/16/index.md) - [Chapter 41](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/41/index.md) - [Chapter 42](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/42/index.md) - [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/30/index.md) - [Chapter 45](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/45/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/25/index.md) - [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/32/index.md) - [Chapter 36](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/36/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/20/index.md) - [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/24/index.md) - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 49](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/49/index.md) - [Chapter 50](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/50/index.md) - [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/28/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 34](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/34/index.md) - [Chapter 46](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/46/index.md) - [Chapter 51](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-4-2170/chapters/51/index.md)