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

PREFACE
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Flight may be necessary:--form your plans.

Be they what they may, there is one who, in exile, in poverty, in peril, asks only to wander, to beg, to die with you." "My Zoe, I do not anticipate any such necessity.

To renounce the conspiracy without renouncing the principles on which it was originally undertaken,--to elude the vengeance of the Senate without losing the confidence of the people,--is, indeed, an arduous, but not an impossible, task.

I owe it to myself and to my country to make the attempt.

There is still ample time for consideration.


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