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The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay (2); In Two Volumes
The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay In Two Volumes - 2 Author:Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Original Publisher: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts Subjects: English essays English poetry Fiction / Classics Literary Collections / Essays Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literar... more »y Criticism / European / Italian Poetry / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: MIRABEAU. (july 1832.) Souvenirs sur Mirabcau, et sur lea deux Premieres Assemblies Legislatives. Par Etienne Dumoxt, de Geneve : ouvrage pos- thumo public par M. J. L. Duval, Membre clu Conseil Eepre- scntatif du Canton clu Geneve. 8vo. Paris : 1832. Tins is a very amusing and a very instructive book : but, even if it wore less amusing and less instructive, it would still be interesting as a relic of a wise and virtuous man. M. Dumont was one of those persons, the care of whose fame belongs in an especial manner to mankind. For he was one of those persons who have, for the sake of mankind, neglected the care of their own fame. In his walk through life there was no obtrusiveness, no pushing, no elbowing, none of the little arts which bring forward little men. With every right to the head of the board, he took the lowest room, and well deserved to be greeted with -- Friend, go up higher. Though no man was more capable of achieving for himself a separate and independent renown, he attached himself to others; he laboured to raise their fame ; he was content to receive as his share of the reward the mere overflowings Avhich redounded from the full measure of their glory. Not that he was of a servile and idolatrous habit of mind : -- not that he was one of the tribe of Boswe...« less