My way of learning a language is always to begin with the Bible, which I can read without a dictionary.
After a few days passed in this way, I am master of all the common particles, the common rules of syntax, and a pretty large vocabulary.
Then I fall on some good classical work.

It was in this way that I learned both Spanish and Portuguese, and I shall try the same course with German.
I have little or nothing to tell you about myself.

My life has flowed away here with strange rapidity.

It seems but yesterday that I left my country; and I am writing to beg you to hasten preparations for my return.

I continue to enjoy perfect health, and the little political squalls which I have had to weather here are mere capfuls of wind to a man who has gone through the great hurricanes of English faction.
I shall send another copy of the article on Bacon by another ship.
Yours very truly T.B.MACAULAY.
Calcutta: November 28, 1836.
Dear Napier,--There is an oversight in the article on Bacon which I shall be much obliged to you to correct.