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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

CHAPTER IV
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He writes now on all subjects as if he certainly intended to be a renegade, and was determined to make the contrast complete."-- The Young Duke, book v chap.

vi.] It is much what any young literary man outside the House of Commons might write of another who had only been inside that House for a few weeks; and it was probably forgotten by the author within twenty-four hours after the ink was dry.

It is to be hoped that the commentators of the future will not treat it as an authoritative record of Mr.Disraeli's estimate of Lord Macaulay's political character.
To Hannah M.Macaulay.
London: June 25, 1831.
My dear Sister,--There was, as you will see, no debate on Lord John Russell's motion.

The Reform Bill is to be brought in, read once, and printed, without discussion.

The contest will be on the second reading, and will be protracted, I should think, through the whole of the week after next;--next week it will be, when you read this letter.
I breakfasted with Rogers yesterday.


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