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قراءة كتاب Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3
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Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 3
THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS AND SPEECHES OF LORD MACAULAY.
Contributions To The Encyclopaedia Britannica And Miscellaneous Poems, Inscriptions, Etc.
By Thomas Babington Macaulay
VOLUME III.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
AND
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, INSCRIPTIONS, ETC.
CONTENTS
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA.
FRANCIS ATTERBURY. (December 1853.)
OLIVER GOLDSMITH. (February 1856.)
SAMUEL JOHNSON. (December 1856.)
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS, INSCRIPTIONS, ETC.
EPITAPH ON HENRY MARTYN. (1812.)
LINES TO THE MEMORY OF PITT. (1813.)
THE BATTLE OF MONCONTOUR. (1824.)
SERMON IN A CHURCHYARD. (1825.)
TRANSLATION FROM A.V. ARNAULT. (1826.)
THE MARRIAGE OF TIRZAH AND AHIRAD. (1827.)
THE COUNTRY CLERGYMAN'S TRIP TO CAMBRIDGE.—AN ELECTION BALLAD. (1827.)
POLITICAL GEORGICS. (MARCH 1828.)
EPITAPH ON A JACOBITE. (1845.)
LINES WRITTEN IN AUGUST. (1847.)
TRANSLATION FROM PLAUTUS. (1850.)
PARAPHRASE OF A PASSAGE IN THE CHRONICLE OF THE MONK OF ST GALL.
INSCRIPTION ON THE STATUE OF LORD WM. BENTINCK. AT CALCUTTA. (1835.)
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA.
FRANCIS ATTERBURY. (December 1853.)
Francis Atterbury, a man who holds a conspicuous place in the political, ecclesiastical, and literary history of England, was born in the year 1662, at Middleton in Buckinghamshire, a parish of which his father was rector. Francis was educated at Westminster School, and carried thence to Christchurch a stock of learning which, though really scanty, he through life exhibited with such judicious ostentation that superficial observers believed his attainments to be immense. At Oxford, his parts, his taste, and his bold, contemptuous, and imperious spirit, soon made him conspicuous. Here he published at twenty, his first work, a translation of the noble poem of Absalom and Achitophel into Latin verse. Neither the style nor the versification of the young scholar was that of the Augustan age. In English composition he succeeded much better. In 1687 he distinguished himself among many able men who wrote in defence of the Church of England, then persecuted by James II., and calumniated by apostates who had for lucre quitted her communion. Among these apostates none was more active or malignant than Obadiah Walker, who was master of University College, and who had set up there, under the royal patronage, a press for printing tracts against the established religion. In one of these tracts, written apparently by Walker himself,