The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volumen2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1876 |
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... Macaulay - Mr . Wallace and Mackintosh - Letters to Mr. Napier and Mr. Ellis - Sir Walter Scott - Lord Brougham - First men- tion of the History - Macaulay goes abroad - His way of regarding scenery Châlons - sur - Marne - Genoa Pisa ...
... Macaulay - Mr . Wallace and Mackintosh - Letters to Mr. Napier and Mr. Ellis - Sir Walter Scott - Lord Brougham - First men- tion of the History - Macaulay goes abroad - His way of regarding scenery Châlons - sur - Marne - Genoa Pisa ...
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... Macaulay is re - elected for Edinburgh - His love for street - ballads - The change of Government PAGE 49 • • CHAPTER IX . 1841-44 . Macaulay settles in the Albany - Letters to Mr. Napier - Warren Hastings , and the Vicar of Wakefield ...
... Macaulay is re - elected for Edinburgh - His love for street - ballads - The change of Government PAGE 49 • • CHAPTER IX . 1841-44 . Macaulay settles in the Albany - Letters to Mr. Napier - Warren Hastings , and the Vicar of Wakefield ...
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... Macaulay's attitude in relation to his critics - The Quarterly Review- The sacrifices which Macaulay made to literature . PAGE 191 • CHAPTER XII . 1849-1852 . Extracts from Macaulay's diary - Herodotus - Mr . Roebuck - Anticipations of ...
... Macaulay's attitude in relation to his critics - The Quarterly Review- The sacrifices which Macaulay made to literature . PAGE 191 • CHAPTER XII . 1849-1852 . Extracts from Macaulay's diary - Herodotus - Mr . Roebuck - Anticipations of ...
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... Macaulay as a man of business - His generosity in money matters - His kindness to his relations , and towards children - Picture galleries— Macaulay as an instructor - He pays a compliment to Lord Palmerston— Macaulay is made a Peer ...
... Macaulay as a man of business - His generosity in money matters - His kindness to his relations , and towards children - Picture galleries— Macaulay as an instructor - He pays a compliment to Lord Palmerston— Macaulay is made a Peer ...
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... Macaulay's bust in Westminster Abbey bears on its pedestal a beautiful inscription , ( which is , and pro- bably will remain , his only biography , ) in which much more is told , than he himself would wish to have been told , about a ...
... Macaulay's bust in Westminster Abbey bears on its pedestal a beautiful inscription , ( which is , and pro- bably will remain , his only biography , ) in which much more is told , than he himself would wish to have been told , about a ...
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