How To Use Macaulay In A Sentence
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The de - cisive use was that of Hutchison Macaulay Posnett, an
LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES
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Zachary Macaulay's 1823 pamphlet, Negro Slavery, was a good example.
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It was through evening storytelling and breakfast badinage with these sisters that Macaulay's mature historical vision emerged.
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Familia raposatului scenarist se afla in sala, iar pe scena au urcat actori care au jucat in filme scrise de el, printre care si Macaulay Culkin, lansat de seria "Home Alone
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Poems like the poems of the English Lord Macaulay are, although in meter and rhyme, not poetry at all, but only rhetoric.
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A more didactic type of prose, designed to inform and convince, was practised by Arnold, Carlyle, Macaulay, and others.
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But in the very same essay, Macaulay supposes Bacon the man to be thoroughly deceitful, self-seeking, and lacking in moral fibre.
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But in the very same essay, Macaulay supposes Bacon the man to be thoroughly deceitful, self-seeking, and lacking in moral fibre.
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Macaulay have occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
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The best paragraphist in the English language for the essay is Macaulay, the best model to follow for the oratorical style is Edmund Burke and for description and narration probably the greatest master of paragraph is the American Goldsmith, Washington Irving.
How to Speak and Write Correctly
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I affected a combination of the styles of Macaulay and Gibbon, the staccato antitheses of the former and the rolling sentences and genitival endings of the latter; and I stuck in a bit of my own from time to time.
MY EARLY LIFE
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Albert V) say if he finds a writer confounding _Catherine_ and _Thomas_ Macaulay as "the celebrated author of the great Whig History of England" -- a confusion hardly worse than that of the two Eachards -- for Catherine, though now forgotten by an ungrateful public, made quite as much noise in her day as Thomas does in ours.
Famous Reviews
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Eighteenth - and nineteenth-century intellectual property debates went beyond Macaulay's antimonopolist focus on price, access, quality, and control of the nation's literary heritage.
The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
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Fire officer Ludo MacAulay said that mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and CPR were administered on the spot and an ambulance reached the scene within five minutes.
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And it is easy to find lengthy disquisitions from Macaulay, Churchill, Smuts, and the like to this effect.
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Fowler and Griswold followed pantingly in the footsteps of Macaulay; their prose is extraordinarily self-conscious, and one searches it in vain for any concession to colloquialism.
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Sangraal (1863) among them, besides short poems, of which perhaps the best known is Shall Trelawny Die? which, based as it is on an old rhyme, deceived both Scott and Macaulay into thinking it an ancient fragment.
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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Macaulay was a young man who possessed in a very high degree what we call the advantages of modern education.
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We also know that On the Origin of Species was tackled by a miner, a grocer, and a coal hewer; and that both volumes of Macaulay's History of England were checked out to an engine driver.
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Macaulay dismissed him as a drunken swaggerer.
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To use Browning's words, Scott "fished the murex up," so that Carlyle outdid Macaulay in "azure feats.
History and Literature
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a future-day Gibbon of Macaulay
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What proportion of Macaulay's words in Paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 are monosyllables and dissyllables?
Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School
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But there was a fundamental difference between Macaulay's views and those of Temple.
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For a long time, he was the butt not only of his mentor's jokes but of critics like Macaulay, who thought him a fool.
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Walpole's story of the French lady who asked for her lover's picture; and when he demurred observing that, if her husband were to see it, it might betray their secret -- "O dear, no," she said -- just like Mr. Macaulay -- "I _will have the picture_, but it _need not be like_!
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I think Sally and Macaulay would make a perfect couple. Let's fix them up.
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Macaulay, on all festive occasions, proved himself as elegant a conversationist as he was a writer; his tone was thoroughly
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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As a stand-up comic, MacAulay has a rare gift - he can put his audience at ease and mercilessly ridicule them at the same time.
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Well over a century before Macaulay wrote on Bacon, John Aubrey (in Brief Lives) had given a somewhat adulatory account of Bacon's life.
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Macaulay was a prolific poet, essayist, novelist, biographer and correspondent, whose life was a complex mixture of public and private.
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Similar incidents carrying apprehension (as Lord Macaulay would say) to the breezy interiors of a thousand shanties on the same fatal morning, the domestic circle would know no name so expressive as _hrac_ for that fatal tube through which man, ingenious in illegitimate perversion, daily compels the innocent breath to discharge a plumbeous hail of rhetoric.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
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Macaulay here speaks like a heated haranguer or Parliamentary partizan, not like an historian or a critic.
The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, November 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad.
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‘The ‘great’ national historian Macaulay,’ Trotsky wrote, ‘vulgarises the social drama of the seventeenth century by obscuring the inner struggle of forces with platitudes that are sometimes interesting but always superficial.’
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Winner of the boys' 90 metres handicap race was eight-year-old Macaulay Dixon from Ulverston.
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We admit it is difficult to controvert the charges which Macaulay arrays against him, for so accurate and painstaking an historian is not likely to be wrong in his facts; but we believe that they are uncandidly stated, and so ingeniously and sophistically put as to give on the whole a wrong impression of the man, -- making him out worse than he was, considering his age and circumstances.
Beacon Lights of History
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Sir William Trumball [sic] whom Macaulay (chap. xxi) characterizes as “a learned civilian and an experienced diplomatist, of moderate opinions and of temper cautious to timidity” was appointed Secretary of State in 1691 and resigned in 1697 to make way for a more zealous partisan.
A Pleasing Form; a firm, yet cautious Mind
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On Catherine Macaulay and Hortensia, see Winterer 2007, 44f.
Caesars’ Wives
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In 1915 Macaulay discovered the primary decomposition of an ideal in a polynomial ring, which is the analogue of the decomposition of a number into a product of prime powers.
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* [619] In an article on the successful preventive treatment of tetanus neonatorum, or the ` ` scourge of St. Kilda, '' of the new-born, Turner 15.198 says the first mention of trismus nascentium or tetanus neonatorum was made by Rev. Kenneth Macaulay in 1764, after a visit to the island of St. Kilda in 1758.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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They were also taken to the machair to see the famous bloodstone with which the Morrisons are reputed to have hit the Macaulays in a clan battle.
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Macaulay's pages with the bustle and variety and animation of some glittering masque and cosmoramic revel of great books and heroical men.
Critical Miscellanies, Volume I (of 3) Essay 4: Macaulay