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The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay
Vol. 1 (of 4)

PREFACE
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Callicles, you shall carry the torch.

Why do you stare?
(The crier and torchbearer were important functionaries at the celebration of the Eleusinian mysteries.) CALLICLES.

I do not much like the frolic.
ALCIBIADES.

Nay, surely you are not taken with a fit of piety.

If all be true that is told of you, you have as little reason to think the gods vindictive as any man breathing.


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