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NO one can read Macaulay's Essays without being struck by his fascinating ease of style, his vast eru dition and prodigious memory. So strong was his memory that he seldom forgot anything that he either read or heard; he had therefore vast stores of know ledge from which to illustrate his meaning, enforce his argument, and delight his reader.
Some of his illustrations and allusions, however, are rather abstruse and not easily understood by all readers.
The cursory reader indeed is often carried away by the style of his author and is content to run on from page to page without understanding every allusion: to such a reader this edition may or may not be useful. To the painstaking student, who has the time, the inclination, and the library at command to do for him self the work that has been done by the editor, this little book will be worse than useless; and the editor assures all such students that they cannot do better than work out their difficulties in their own way. But to the careful reader that has only a limited supply of books and not very much time to spare on abstruse allusions, this annotated edition will perhaps prove helpful and be more or less welcome.
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- PublisherForgotten Books
- Publication date2024
- ISBN 10 133450914X
- ISBN 13 9781334509148
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages227
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