Thomas Babington Macaulay — a remark

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“I have not the Chancellor's encyclopaedic mind. He is indeed a kind of semi-Solomon. He half knows everything from the cedar to the hyssop.”

Witty comment on the breadth and limits of another man's knowledge · Letter to Macvey Napier, 17 December 1830

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

25 October 1800–28 December 1859

Thomas Babington Macaulay was born on 25 October 1800 at Rothley Temple in Leicestershire and died on 28 December 1859 at Kensington, London. He was at once a poet, essayist, parliamentarian, colonial administrator, historian, reviewer, and one of the most commanding prose stylists in nineteenth-century English. To…

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