To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence.


Volume I, page 265. - Lady Holland's Memoir (1855) - Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Sydney Smith Quotes

To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a...

To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a...

To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a...

To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a...