Author : Macaulay Macaulay
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ISBN 13 : 9781331294177
Total Pages : 418 pages
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Book Synopsis New Biographies of Illustrious Men (Classic Reprint) by : Macaulay Macaulay
Download or read book New Biographies of Illustrious Men (Classic Reprint) written by Macaulay Macaulay and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Biographies of Illustrious Men Joseph Addison was the eldest son of Dean Addison. He was born at his father's rectory of Milston in Wiltshire, on the first day of May, 1672. After having passed through several schools, the last of which was the Charter-house, he went to Oxford, when he was about fifteen years old. He was first entered of Queen's College, but after two years was elected a scholar of Magdalen College, having, it is said, been recommended by his skill in Latin versification. He took his master's degree in 1693, and held a fellowship from 1699 to 1711. The eleven years extending from 1693, or his twenty-first year, to 1704, when he was in his thirty-second, may be set down as the first stage of his life as a man of letters. During this period, embracing no profession, and not as yet entangled in official business, he was a student, an observer, and an author; and though the literary works which he then produced are not those on which his permanent celebrity rests, they gained for him in his own day a high reputation. 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.