Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (Classic Reprint), by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Excerpt from Critical and Miscellaneous EssaysFrom school he went to the university of Cambridge, where he earned reputation by his verses and his oratory, and by his youthful contributions to Charles Knight's Quarterly Magazine. He graduated B.A. in 1822, and M.A. in 1826. He had already entered himself at Lincoln's Inn, and been called to the bar. His real entry into literature was through the gates of the Edinburgh Review, his first effort being a brilliant essay on Milton. During twenty years this first contribution was followed by many others, some upon books, some upon lives of eminent men; of which the best were those on Hastings and Clive, original efforts of his genius working on new material, the gathering of his own eye and ear in the country which they so splendidly describe. His political career was commenced in 1830, under the auspices of Lord Lansdowne, who, seeing an article on the ballot by the young barrister, at once sought him out, and introduced him to Parliament as member for Calne. The Government made him secretary of the Board of Control for India, and thus secured his talents for the service of the Whigs. In 1834 he went to India as a member of the Supreme Council; and having in two years and a half made a considerable addition to his fortune, he came back to England to acquire fame. For a few years he pursued both politics and letters, representing Edinburgh in the House of Commons, and writing articles for the Edinburgh Review. A quarrel with his constituents broke his connection with the House of Commons, and restored him to literature. It is true, the citizens of Edinburgh again chose him as their representative in 1852; but he was little more than a nominal member, for he only spoke once or twice, and then on questions of no public moment. During the last twelve years of his life, his time had been almost solely occupied with the History of England, four volumes of which were completed and published, and a fifth left partly ready for the press, and which afterwards appeared.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.
Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (Classic Reprint), by Thomas Babington Macaulay- Published on: 2015-09-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x 1.27" w x 5.98" l, 1.83 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Good essays, lousy print. By The Universal Geek Five stars for Macaulay. One star for Forgotten Books.Macaulay first: He was an excellent writer in the 18th-century style. He's wordy but eloquent, and his vast learning is obvious but not ostentatious. As he puts it in one of the essays, "Obscurity and affectation are the two worst faults of style." He rarely commits either. Anyone who has read Gibbon, Spencer, and other writers of that style, will forgive Macaulay the occasional purple passage.Most of the essays are on literary subjects - either lives and works of authors (Milton, Machiavelli, Dryden), or are book reviews. The authorial essays are good broad overviews of their subjects' lives and works, together with Macaulay's opinions of them. The book reviews are biographies and histories of famous Englishmen, and Macaulay usually starts by giving his opinion of the book but digresses (at great length!) into his opinion of the events in the book. He was writing for an audience interested in subjects like the English Civil War and the Reform Bill, and familiar with most of their main characters and events. So be prepared for unexplained references to names like Hampden (Cromwell's cousin and aide in the Civil War), Burleigh/Burghley (chief minister to Elizabeth I), and Charles James Fox (parliamentarian of the late 1700s), and for untranslated quotes in Greek, Latin, and French.Macaulay was an opinionated man, and minced no words in his essays. Watching him heap contumely on bad authors and on the Bourbon and Stuart monarchs gets monotonous after a while, but in general his criticisms have factual backing. There are exceptions: what he says about Sir Edward Coke in the essay on Francis Bacon is very close to libel. However, on the whole Macaulay was thoughtful about his opinions and makes them well worth reading.As for Forgotten Books, the company name is appropriate. What they forgot is quality control. The book is a print-on-demand photocopy of one of those old books with two columns of close and tiny print. The font size (8 or so) makes legibility a problem even when the printing is clear, but regrettably Forgotten Books took no pains whatever to clear smudges and blurs from the lettering. Even with a magnifying glass, some of it is illegible. Furthermore, the copy frequently leaves off the last word of a paragraph, and every essay has 10-20 blank spaces where a whole line is missing. If you're good at guessing the context, you can fill in some of the blanks - but shame on a book company for defacing a fine work with a terrible printing!
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