A Memoir Of Lord Macaulay Reprinted From The Papers Of The Royal Society

Author : George Otto Trevelyan
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ISBN 13 : 9781330626542
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Classic Reprint) written by George Otto Trevelyan and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay More than thirty years have already passed since the Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay first saw the light; and the author of that book has now reached the age when it is none too soon to set his affairs in order, and put his work into the final shape in which he would wish the world to read it. I have thought it prudent to use a very sparing hand in dealing with Macaulay's biography; for I have been warned by the examples, which literary history only too frequently affords, of the risk inseparable from any attempt to alter the form, or increase the bulk, of a literary production that has had the good fortune not to displease the public. The existing text has accordingly been left untouched; but new matter of importance will nevertheless be found between the covers. Fresh notes have been inserted at the close of the Fourth, the Eleventh, and the Fourteenth Chapters. The First Appendix contains a contemporary account of Macaulay's earliest appearance upon a public platform, written by a lady who was a family friend of the young orator; and the Third Appendix pictures Macaulay in his aspect of a customer at the book-stalls. A more noteworthy addition to this book is the Sixteenth Chapter which, now concludes the volume. That chapter gives a selection, some parts of which have never yet been published, from the remarks pencilled by my uncle on the blank spaces of volumes that he had in reading. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.