Word: hackwork
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...deals with Macaulay's Writings. One or two inaccuracies there are, and, for instance, the statement that he left no great amount of literary work behind him. Did Sheridan leave more? All the essays, the poetry, the unfinished history, which I confess seems to me much of the partisan hackwork style of literature, make up a considerable bulk of remains - and then much of his work was in the form of speeches. For the rest, the essay seems to me good, especially as I agree thoroughly with the writer, and never more so than when he implies that Maculay just...