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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ...O. Trevelyan. For example, we learn that, on one occasion, his father took the boy on a visit to Lady Waldegrave at Strawberry Hill. After some time had been spent among the wonders of the Oxford collection, a servant who was waiting upon the company in the great gallery spilt some hot coffee over his legs. The hostess was all kindness and compassion, and when, after a while, she asked how he was feeling, the little fellow looked up in her face, and replied: "Thank you, madam, the agony is abated." SENTENTIOUS, TRULY! Mr Trevelyan tells us that Mrs Macaulay once explained to her son that he must learn to study without the solace of bread and butter; to which he replied: "Yes, mamma, industry shall be my bread, and attention my butter." RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION. At one period of his boyhood (says the same authority) Macaulay's fancy was much exercised with the threats and terrors of the law. He had a little plot of ground at the back of the house, marked out as his own by a row of oyster-shells which a maid one day threw away as rubbish. He went straight to the drawing-room, where his mother was entertaining some visitors, walked into the circle, and said very solemnly: "Cursed be Sally: for it is written, Cursed is he that removeth his neighbour's land-mark.'" 1 Born 1800, died 1859. THE PERSON WHO SHAVED HIM. Macaulay, it appears, was unhandy to a degree quite unexampled in the experience of all who knew him. After he had sailed for India (says his biographer), there were found in his chambers between fifty and sixty strops, hacked into strips and splinters, and razors without beginning or end. About the same period he hurt his hand, and was reduced to send for a barber. After the operation, he asked what was...
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