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  • His nomination as Republican candidate in the 1860 Presidential election was widely taken for granted, and when he visited Europe in 1859 he was received with the attention due to a President-elect: as he had forecast to Flashman, he met the Queen, Lord Palmerston (who had just become Prime Minister for the second time), the Foreign Secretary Lord John Russell, Gladstone, Lord Macaulay, and many other prominent figures.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • It builds up again in the 18th and 19th century - which is presumably why late 19th-century prescriptive grammarians started to condemn it - notwithstanding instances such as 'in order to fully appreciate' from Lord Macaulay in 1843, among others.

    Archive 2008-06-01 DC 2008

  • It builds up again in the 18th and 19th century - which is presumably why late 19th-century prescriptive grammarians started to condemn it - notwithstanding instances such as 'in order to fully appreciate' from Lord Macaulay in 1843, among others.

    On early splitting DC 2008

  • Thirty years earlier, in March of 1829, writing in the Edinburgh Review, Lord Macaulay described Phrenology as “laughable.”

    It’s all in your head: Phrenology and the Victorians 2008

  • Thirty years earlier, in March of 1829, writing in the Edinburgh Review, Lord Macaulay described Phrenology as “laughable.”

    Archive 2008-11-01 2008

  • I believe that Lord Macaulay was a man who probably never committed a mortal sin in his life, that is to say, a deliberate mortal sin.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • His nomination as Republican candidate in the 1860 Presidential election was widely taken for granted, and when he visited Europe in 1859 he was received with the attention due to a President-elect: as he had forecast to Flashman, he met the Queen, Lord Palmerston (who had just become Prime Minister for the second time), the Foreign Secretary Lord John Russell, Gladstone, Lord Macaulay, and many other prominent figures.

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • In 1840 Mr. Gladstone crossed swords with the distinguished historian and Parliamentary debater, Lord Macaulay, in debate in the House of Commons on the relations of England with China.

    The Grand Old Man Cook, Richard B 1989

  • There is certainly ground to surmise that Lord Macaulay had in mind what I have called

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 Various

  • -- This spirited poem by Lord Macaulay is founded on one of the most popular Roman legends.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

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