Macaulay's and Carlyle's Essays on Samuel Johnson (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Macaulay's and Carlyle's Essays on Samuel Johnson Macaulay received his earliest instruction at a small School in Clapham, and at twelve entered a pri vate school conducted by the Rev. Mr. Preston. He went into residence at Trinity College, Cambridge, at eighteen. Here he devoted himself to the classics, expressing great distaste for mathematical studies. He twice gained the chancellor's medal for English verse, and won other minor distinctions, but his neglect of the mathematics barred him from the highest honors. In 1824, two years after his graduation, he was made a Fellow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.