 | Hugh Chisholm - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1106 pages
...squander their intellect, their health and energy, on such subjects as those whicji most statesmen arc engaged in pursuing. He was already, he says. " more...Praed." In 1838 Macaulay and his sister Hannah, who had married Charles Trevelyan in 1834, returned to England. He at once entered parliament as member for... | |
 | Hugh Chisholm - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1911 - 1058 pages
...thirteen months he read through, some of them twice, a large part of the Greek and Latin classics. The fascination of these studies produced their inevitable...sleepless nights, and diseased stomachs to Roebuck and to Pracd." In 1838 Macaulay and his sister Hannah, who had married Charles Trevelyan in 1834, returned... | |
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I am more than half determined to abandon politics, and to give myself wholly to letters ; to undertake some great historical work which may be at once the business and the amusement of my life... 
