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...Drennan's Tuesday morning conferences hereafter will be taken up with the reading of Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings. When that is finished and the laws of argumentative composition are under discussion, one of Burke's speeches will be read as an example...
...Science of Ethics," by Leslie Stephen, and "Macaulay," by Frederic Harrison, are recent English publications...
...thought you had no name," said I to Macaulay's creation...
...Sunday afternoon, a few weeks ago, I was sitting in my room with a volume of Macaulay in my hand, musing upon the looks and character of my friend the school-boy, when there came a knock at the door. To my shout of "Come in!" there entered a person whom I at once recognized as the wonderful boy I had so long desired to see. His head was small; his eyes had a sleepy look in them, and were of dull gray; his nose inclined to the pug; and his mouth was large and inexpressive; but his hair...
...said the other, "I must study," and he began to repeat a list of the Popes. "Besides," he added, "here is a quotation from Pope that Macaulay says every one knows by heart, and I must learn...