The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay: v. 1 & 2 in 1v Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. 1824-1830. Mncanlay is Called to the P,ar.?Does not Make it a Serions Profession.? Speech before the Antislnvery Society.?Knight's Qnarterly Magazine.? The Edinbnrgh Eerieiv and the "Essay on Milton."?Macanlay's Personal Appearance and Mode of Existence.?His Defects and Virtnes, Likings and Antipathies.?Croker.?Sadler.?Zachary Macanlay's Circumstances. ?Description of the Family Habits of Life in Great Ormond Street.? Macanlay's Sisters.?Lady Trevelyan.?"The Jndicious Poet."?Macan- lay's Humor in Conversation.?His Artieles in the Review.?His Attacks on the Utilitarians and on Son they.?JllackwoocTa Magazine.?Macanlay is made Commissioner of Bankruptcy.?Enters Parliament.?Letters from Circnit and Edinburgh. Macaulay was called to the bar in 1826, and joined the Northern Circuit at Leeds. On the evening that he first appeared at mess, when the company were retiring for the night, he was observed to be carefully picking out the longest candle. An old king's counsel, who noticed that he had a volume under his arm, remonstrated with him on the danger of reading in bed, upon which he rejoined with immense rapidity of utterance : " I always read in bed at home; and if I am not afraid of committing parricide and matricide and fratricide, I can hardly be expected to pay any special regard to the lives of the bagmen of Leeds." And, so saying, he left his hearers staring at one another, and marched off to his room, little knowing that before many years were out he would have occasion to speak much more respectfully of the Leeds bagmen. Under its social aspect, Macaulay heartily enjoyed his legal career. He made an admirable literary use of the Saturnalia which the Northern Circuit calls by the name of " Grand Night," when personalities of the most pronounced descript...Read More