The whole passage is a model of self-glorification, exquisite in skill and finish.] He has won the honour of an excellent historian while attempting merely to give hints for history.

But what are they all to the great Athenian?
I do assure you that there is no prose composition in the world, not even the De Corona, which I place so high as the seventh book of Thucydides.

It is the ne plus ultra of human art.
I was delighted to find in Gray's letters the other day this query to Wharton: "The retreat from Syracuse--Is it or is it not the finest thing you ever read in your life ?" Did you ever read Athenaeus through?
I never did; but I am meditating an attack on him.

The multitude of quotations looks very tempting; and I never open him for a minute without being paid for my trouble.
Yours very affectionately T.B.MACAULAY.
Calcutta: December 30, 1835, Dear Ellis,--What the end of the Municipal Reform Bill is to be I cannot conjecture.

Our latest English intelligence is of the 15th of August.
The Lords were then busy in rendering the only great service that I expect them ever to render to the nation; that is to say, in hastening the day of reckoning.