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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

CHAPTER I
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The plan on which children were brought up in the chosen home of the Low Church party, during its golden age, will bear comparison with systems about which, in their day, the world was supposed never to tire of hearing, although their ultimate results have been small indeed.
It is easy to trace whence the great bishop and the great writer derived their immense industry.

Working came as naturally as walking to sons who could not remember a time when their fathers idled.

"Mr.Wilberforce and Mr.Babington have never appeared downstairs lately, except to take a hasty dinner, and for half an hour after we have supped.

The slave-trade now occupies them nine hours daily.

Mr.Babington told me last night that he had fourteen hundred folio pages to read, to detect the contradictions, and to collect the answers which corroborate Mr.
Wilberforce's assertions in his speeches.


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