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Macaulay has nowhere, that we have observed, specially noticed them; but except these, whatever they may be, we find no trace of anything that Fox and Mackintosh had not already examined and classed. We suspect, however, that we can trace Mr. Macaulay's design to its true source the example and success of the author of Waverley.
Macaulay's pages an air of impartiality and candour very discordant from their general spirit. We are now arrived at the fourth chapter really the first, strictly speaking, of Mr. Macaulay's history the accession of James II, where also Sir James Mackintosh's history commences.
Macaulay's doctrine partially recognises this by falling back upon the Whig theory of checks and balances, and the mixture of three mysterious entities, monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. But, as Bentham had sufficiently shown in the Fragment, the theory becomes hopelessly unreal when we try to translate it into facts.
His education was never finished; he was a student to the day of his death. Even during his last sickness he asked me to return a volume of Macaulay's "History of England" that I had borrowed, so that some one could read to him from it.
Women thronged the banks along the roadsides, and held up their children to see him go by. Flowers as to the poor quality of which it was hardly worth Lord Macaulay's while, by the way, to speak so disparagingly were offered for his acceptance, or strewn under his feet. Every mark of devotion which a desperately poor country could show was shown without stint.
I remember one within my youthfuller knowledge of a journalist who used as his own all the denunciatory passages of Macaulay's article on Barrere, and applied them with changes of name to the character and conduct of a local politician whom he felt it his duty to devote to infamy. He was caught in the fact, and by means of the parallel column pilloried before the community.
Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome are a brilliant reconstruction of what he conceived to be the spirit of this early literature. It was written, its supporters contend, in the native Saturnian, and, while strongly leavened with Greek ideas, was in no way copied from Greek models.
Read one of the essays, on Milton or Addison, and make an analysis, having in mind the style, the interest, and the accuracy of the essay. What useful purpose does Macaulay's historical knowledge serve in writing his literary essays? What is the general character of Macaulay's History of England? Rqad a chapter from Macaulay's History, another from Carlyle's French Revolution, and compare the two.
Muir-fowl is grouse. Ante p. 44. See ante, p. 162, note 1. 'In Col only two houses pay the window tax; for only two have six windows, which, I suppose, are the laird's and Mr. Macsweyn's. Johnson's Works, ix. 125. The tax was first imposed in 1695, as a substitute for hearth money. Macaulay's England, ed. 1874, vii. 271. It was abolished in 1851.
"I wish," I said, "that I were a special correspondent. I'd " "Well," said Bland. "What would you say?" "I should take that New Zealander who stood on the broken arch of Westminster Bridge and " "Macaulay's," said Bland. "I don't think that the public would stand him again. He's played out." "Not in the way I mean to use him. I should, so to speak, spiritualize him, and "
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