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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

CHAPTER V
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Be particular, above all, in your accounts of the Quakers.
I enjoin this especially on Nancy; for from Meg I have no hope of extracting a word of truth.
I dined yesterday at Holland House; all Lords except myself.

Lord Radnor, Lord Poltimore, Lord King, Lord Russell, and his uncle Lord John.

Lady Holland was very gracious, praised my article on Burleigh to the skies, and told me, among other things, that she had talked on the preceding day for two hours with Charles Grant upon religion, and had found him very liberal and tolerant.

It was, I suppose, the cholera which sent her Ladyship to the only saint in the Ministry for ghostly counsel.

Poor Macdonald's case was most undoubtedly cholera.


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