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THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
OF
LORD MACAULAY.

VOLUME I.
PREFACE.
Lord Macaulay always looked forward to a publication of his
miscellaneous works, either by himself or by those who should
represent him after his death. And latterly he expressly reserved,
whenever the arrangements as to copyright made it necessary, the right
of such publication.
The collection which is now published comprehends some of the
earliest and some of the latest works which he composed. He was born
on 25th October, 1800; commenced residence at Trinity College,
Cambridge, in October, 1818; was elected Craven University Scholar
in 1821; graduated as B.A. in 1822; was elected fellow of the college in
October, 1824; was called to the bar in February, 1826, when he joined
the Northern Circuit; and was elected member for Calne in 1830. After
this last event, he did not long continue to practise at the bar. He went
to India in 1834, whence he returned in June, 1838. He was elected
member for Edinburgh, in 1839, and lost this seat in July, 1847; and
this (though he was afterwards again elected for that city in July, 1852,
without being a candidate) may be considered as the last instance of his
taking an active part in the contests of public life. These few dates are
mentioned for the purpose of enabling the reader to assign the articles,

now and previously published, to the principal periods into which the
author's life may be divided.
The admirers of his later works will probably be interested by watching
the gradual formation of his style, and will notice in his earlier
productions, vigorous and clear as their language always was, the
occurrence of faults against which he afterwards most anxiously
guarded himself. A much greater interest will undoubtedly be felt in
tracing the date and development of his opinions.
The articles published in Knight's Quarterly Magazine were composed
during the author's residence at college, as B.A. It may be remarked
that the first two of these exhibit the earnestness with which he already
endeavoured to represent to himself and to others the scenes and
persons of past times as in actual existence. Of the Dialogue between
Milton and Cowley he spoke, many years after its publication, as that
one of his works which he remembered with most satisfaction. The
article on Mitford's Greece he did not himself value so highly as others
thought it deserved. This article, at any rate, contains the first distinct
enunciation of his views, as to the office of an historian, views
afterwards more fully set forth in his Essay, upon History, in the
Edinburgh Review. From the protest, in the last mentioned essay,
against the conventional notions respecting the majesty of history
might perhaps