# Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3

Author: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2169

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Miscellaneous+Writings+and+Speeches+Macaulay&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Francis Atterbury, a man who holds a conspicuous place in the political, ecclesiastical, and literary history of England, was born in the year 1662, at Middleton in Buckinghamshire, a parish of which his father was rector. Francis was educated at Westminster School, and carried thence to Christchurch a stock of learning which, though really scanty, he through life exhibited with such judicious ostentation that superficial observers believed his attainments to be immense. At Oxford, his parts, his taste, and his bold, contemptuous, and imperious spirit, soon made him conspicuous. Here he published at twenty, his first work, a translation of the noble poem of Absalom and Achitophel into Lat...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-3-2169/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/miscellaneous-writings-and-speeches-volume-3-2169/chapters/2/index.md)