Catharine Macaulay Quotes

United Kingdom, Historian
March 23, 1731 – June, 22, 1791.

Catharine Macaulay later Catharine Graham, was an English Whig republican historian. Catharine Macaulay was a daughter of John Sawbridge and his wife Elizabeth Wanley of Olantigh. John was a landed proprietor from Wye, Kent, whose ancestors were Warwickshire yeomanry.

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Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule of moral excellence for beings made of the same materials, organized after the same manner, and subjected to similar laws of Nature, we must either agree with Mr. Pope, or we must reverse the proposition, and say, that a perfect man is a woman formed after a coarser mold.

Catharine Macaulay
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