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Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

CHAPTER V
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Our turn will come one of these days.
If you want to see me puffed and abused by somebody who evidently knows nothing about me, look at the New Monthly for this month.

Bulwer, I see, has given up editing it.

I suppose he is making money in some other way; for his dress must cost as much as that of any five other members of Parliament.
To-morrow Wilberforce is to be buried.

His sons acceded, with great eagerness, to the application made to them by a considerable number of the members of both Houses that the funeral should be public.

We meet to-morrow at twelve at the House of Commons, and we shall attend the coffin into the Abbey.


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