Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Contributor, Vol. 13: December, 1891
IT has been said thata speech delivered by Macaulay, on the great question which absorbed hisfather's life, attracted the notice of jeffrey, then seeking for young blood to enrich the pages of the Edin burgh Review, and that this was the means of his introduction into the guild of literature. The 'world is now familiar with that series of inimitable essays, which were poured out in rapid and apparently inexhaustible succession, for the space of twenty years. To criticise them, either in mass or detail, is no part of my duty, and even to enumerate would entail a pilgrimage to many and distant shrines. 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.
