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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

CHAPTER IV
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We passed through a narrow lane between two thick masses of them; and all the way down they were shouting and waving their hats, till we got into the open air.

I called a cabriolet, and the first thing the driver asked was, "Is the Bill carried ?" "Yes, by one." "Thank God for it, Sir." And away I rode to Gray's Inn,--and so ended a scene which will probably never be equalled till the reformed Parliament wants reforming; and that I hope will not be till the days of our grandchildren, till that truly orthodox and apostolical person Dr.
Francis Ellis is an archbishop of eighty.
As for me, I am for the present a sort of lion.

My speech has set me in the front rank, if I can keep there; and it has not been my luck hitherto to lose ground when I have once got it.

Sheil and I are on very civil terms.

He talks largely concerning Demosthenes and Burke.


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