Category: Biographies
WHEN publishing the Second Edition of Lord MACAULAY'S Life and Letters, I may be permitted to say that no pains were spared in order that the First Edition should be as complete as possible. But, in the course of the last nine months, I have come into possession of a certain q...
The outward voyage--Arrival at Madras--Macaulay is summoned to join Lord William Bentinck in the Neilgherries--His journey up-country--His native servant--Arcot--Bangalore-- Ser...
7. Chapter 7Macaulay is invited to stand for Leeds--The Reform bill passes--Macaulay appointed Commissioner of the Board of Control--His life in office--Letters to his sisters-- Contested e...
6. Chapter 6State of public affairs when Macaulay entered Parliament-- His maiden speech--The French Revolution of July 1830-- Macaulay's letters from Paris--The Palais Royal--Lafayette-- L...
5. Chapter 5Macaulay is called to the bar--Does not make it a serious profession--Speech before the Anti-Slavery Society--Knight's Quarterly Magazine--The Edinburgh Review and the Essay on...
3. Chapter 3wishes in the matter too clearly to leave any choice for those who come after him. But there still may be read in a boyish scrawl the epitome of Universal History, from "a new k...
4. Chapter 4Macaulay goes to the University--His love for Trinity College--His contemporaries at Cambridge--Charles Austin-- The Union Debating Society--University studies, successes, and f...
2. Chapter 2Plan and scope of the work--History of the Macaulay family-- Aulay--Kenneth--Johnson and Boswell--John Macaulay and his children--Zachary Macaulay--His career in the West Indies...
1. Chapter 1WHEN publishing the Second Edition of Lord MACAULAY'S Life and Letters, I may be permitted to say that no pains were spared in order that the First Edition should be as complete...