Word: macaulay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aiglon, the only son of Napoleon and Empress Marie Louise, was the principal martyr of the Bonapartist tradition. The child was only four when his father was sent to St. Helena, but it was already clear, says Stacton, that he was "preternaturally intelligent, as precocious as Macaulay or J. S. Mill." In Austria, however, he was placed with tutors who were instructed to retard his development as much as possible. After a few years of repressive treatment, the boy became withdrawn and watchful. At 16, he developed tuberculosis. At 21, ignored by his mother and surrounded by doctors who tried...
...sorts as the President's most ardent public drumbeater ("I sleep each night a little better because Lyndon Johnson is my President") and as a master of purple-hued prose. He is also, it seems, a tolerably knowledgeable history buff, gushed almost as effusively over Historian Thomas Macaulay in last week's Saturday Review as he ever did over Lyndon Johnson...
...occasions when the Abbey is not crowded, it is a tranquil haven. At other times, it is an album of remembrance littered with memorabilia in stone, a storehouse of history. The historian Macaulay called the Abbey a "temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of a thousand years lie buried." It is Valhalla, Arlington Cemetery, the tombs on Red Square, a combination of Paris' Pantheon and the Montparnasse Cemetery. After nine centuries, it remains a silent place full of lost hope and renewed energy...
...done just that. From page 1 of the book, when he sets the stage for Kennedy's Inauguration by describing the "eerie beauty" of blizzard-bound Washington, to page 1031, when he rings down the curtain on a snow-covered grave in Arlington, he follows Thomas Babington Macaulay's dictum that "a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated...
...wrote Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. "The captain of Hampshire Grenadiers," Gibbon insisted, "was not useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." Indeed, says Schlesinger, "until the last half of the 19th century, the great historians were, in one way or another, captains of Hampshire Grenadiers. Macaulay, Bancroft, Guizot, Carlyle, Parkman, Henry Adams-all were men for whom the history they wrote was a derivation from the experiences they enjoyed or endured...