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...Macaulay a "romance writer"? (Compare Wolseley's Marlborough and Macaulay's History on same events, and draw conclusions...
...large audience. Mr. Copeland spoke on Boswell's Life of Johnson. In the long line of literature, Swift, Johnson and Carlyle stand out pre-eminently for their personalities; and Johnson's place in this list is due chiefly to the very excellent picture Boswell has given of him. Macaulay never admired Boswell, claiming that he was simply a good reporter, but he was far more more than that, and his life of Johnson is surely the best biography ever written in English, probably the best ever written in any language. It seems rather remarkable in the face of this very...
...translation into Latin from Macaulay's History of England from the beginning, "I propose to write," through the words "from which a more glorious civilization was to spring...
...valuable collection of books bequeathed by the late Francis Macaulay to the University of Pennsylvania, contains nearly 3000 volumes of Italian literature...
...return it to owner. (b) All history shows that the unlimited coinage of an article has never been able to raise it to a level with gold, the market price having been beneath gold (Fiske: Critical Period of Amer. Hist. 1784-89; Blaine: Thirty Years in Congress, Vol. I.; Macaulay's History, Vol. I, II). (5) Free coinage would not give us bimetallism. (a) All our gold would be exported or hoarded, according to Gresham's Law. (Newspapers during panic of 1893). (b) We would be on a silver monometallic basis. (c) International bimetallism would be made impossible...