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

PART I
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The people are swarming in on every side.

Proclamation is made--"Who wishes to speak ?" There is a shout, and a clapping of hands: Pericles is mounting the stand.

Then for a play of Sophocles; and away to sup with Aspasia.

I know of no modern university which has so excellent a system of education.
Knowledge thus acquired and opinions thus formed were, indeed, likely to be, in some respects, defective.

Propositions which are advanced in discourse generally result from a partial view of the question, and cannot be kept under examination long enough to be corrected.


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