Babington

Famous quotes containing the word babington:

“His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

“The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)

“To punish a man because he has committed a crime, or because he is believed, though unjustly, to have committed a crime, is not persecution. To punish a man, because we infer from the nature of some doctrine which he holds, or from the conduct of other persons who hold the same doctrines with him, that he will commit a crime, is persecution, and is, in every case, foolish and wicked.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)