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

PREFACE
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Dice, Chian, and the loveliest Greek singing girl that was ever seen.

Think of that, Ligarius.

By Venus, she almost made me adore her, by telling me that I talked Greek with the most Attic accent that she had heard in Italy." "I doubt she will not say the same of me," replied Ligarius.

"I am just as able to decipher an obelisk as to read a line of Homer." "You barbarous Scythian, who had the care of your education ?" "An old fool,--a Greek pedant,--a Stoic.

He told me that pain was no evil, and flogged me as if he thought so.


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