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... XV . 1859 . Melancholy anticipations - Visit to the English lakes and to Scotland- Extracts from Macaulay's journal - His death and funeral . • 469 LIFE AND LETTERS OF LORD MACAULAY . scenery CHAPTER VII viii CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME .
... XV . 1859 . Melancholy anticipations - Visit to the English lakes and to Scotland- Extracts from Macaulay's journal - His death and funeral . • 469 LIFE AND LETTERS OF LORD MACAULAY . scenery CHAPTER VII viii CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME .
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... English factions , is more formidable than you can well conceive to the members of the Civil Service , who are quite unaccustomed to be dragged rudely before the public . It is , therefore I 2 CH . VII . LIFE AND LETTERS OF.
... English factions , is more formidable than you can well conceive to the members of the Civil Service , who are quite unaccustomed to be dragged rudely before the public . It is , therefore I 2 CH . VII . LIFE AND LETTERS OF.
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... English lakes , he would be inclined to ask What went ye out for to see ? ' Yet he readily took in the points of a landscape ; and I remember being much struck by his description of the country before you reach Rome , which he gives in ...
... English lakes , he would be inclined to ask What went ye out for to see ? ' Yet he readily took in the points of a landscape ; and I remember being much struck by his description of the country before you reach Rome , which he gives in ...
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... , in a place not unlike the close of an English cathedral surrounded with green turf ; still kept in the most perfect preservation , and evidently matters of admiration , and of pride , to 20 CH . VII , LIFE AND LETTERS OF.
... , in a place not unlike the close of an English cathedral surrounded with green turf ; still kept in the most perfect preservation , and evidently matters of admiration , and of pride , to 20 CH . VII , LIFE AND LETTERS OF.
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... English newspapers . I crossed the river , and walked through some of the rooms in the Palazzo Pitti ; greatly admiring a little painting by Raphael from Ezekiel , which was so fine that it almost 1838-39 . 21 . LORD MACAULAY .
... English newspapers . I crossed the river , and walked through some of the rooms in the Palazzo Pitti ; greatly admiring a little painting by Raphael from Ezekiel , which was so fine that it almost 1838-39 . 21 . LORD MACAULAY .
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