The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volumen2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1876 |
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... quite unsettled . Breakfasts every morning , dinners every evening , and calls all day , prevent me from making any regular exertion . My books are at the baggage warehouse . My book - cases are in the 1838-39 . 9 LORD MACAULAY .
... quite unsettled . Breakfasts every morning , dinners every evening , and calls all day , prevent me from making any regular exertion . My books are at the baggage warehouse . My book - cases are in the 1838-39 . 9 LORD MACAULAY .
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... morning I was in the streets of Genoa . Never have I been more struck and enchanted . There was nothing mean or small to break the charm , as one huge , massy , towering palace succeeded to another . True it is that none of these ...
... morning I was in the streets of Genoa . Never have I been more struck and enchanted . There was nothing mean or small to break the charm , as one huge , massy , towering palace succeeded to another . True it is that none of these ...
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... Morning Chronicle . Lord Brougham , I have a notion , will often wish that he had left Lord Durham alone . Lord Durham will be in the House of Lords , with his pugnacious spirit , and with his high reputation among the Radicals . In ...
... Morning Chronicle . Lord Brougham , I have a notion , will often wish that he had left Lord Durham alone . Lord Durham will be in the House of Lords , with his pugnacious spirit , and with his high reputation among the Radicals . In ...
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... morning fog . I did not discern the lake till the road came quite close to it , and then my view extended only over a few yards of reedy mud and shallow water , so that I can truly say that I have seen precisely what the Roman army saw ...
... morning fog . I did not discern the lake till the road came quite close to it , and then my view extended only over a few yards of reedy mud and shallow water , so that I can truly say that I have seen precisely what the Roman army saw ...
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... Morning Chronicle make their appearance twelve days after they are published in Lon- don . It is a pleasant city for an English traveller . He is not harassed , or restrained . He lives as he likes , and reads what he likes , and ...
... Morning Chronicle make their appearance twelve days after they are published in Lon- don . It is a pleasant city for an English traveller . He is not harassed , or restrained . He lives as he likes , and reads what he likes , and ...
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