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Macaulay

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Ma·cau·lay  (m-kôl), Dame Rose 1881-1958.
British writer whose witty, urbane novels include Potterism (1920) and The World My Wilderness (1950).
Macaulay, Thomas Babington. First Baron Macaulay. 1800-1859.
British historian, writer, and politician whose works include the popular History of England (1849-1861), numerous essays for the Edinburgh Review, and a volume of narrative poems, Lays of Ancient Rome (1842).
Macaulay [məˈkɔːlɪ]
n
1. (Biographies / Macaulay, Rose (1881-1958) F, British, WRITING: novelist) Dame Rose. 1881-1958, British novelist. Her books include Dangerous Ages (1921) and The Towers of Trebizond (1956)
2. (Biographies / Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1st Baron (1800-1859) M, English, HISTORY: historian, WRITING: essayist, POLITICS: statesman) Thomas Babington, 1st Baron. 1800-59, English historian, essayist, and statesman. His History of England from the Accession of James the Second (1848-61) is regarded as a classic of the Whig interpretation of history
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Noun1.MacaulayMacaulay - English historian noted for his history of England (1800-1859)
First Baron Macaulay, Lord Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay


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The dull old letters, which would have turned the heads of the most sober of collectors, were laid upon a table, and, after a moment's pause, Cassandra, looking grave all of a sudden, asked Katharine where she should find the "History of England" by Lord Macaulay.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
He said he had observed it in Kirkham's grammar and in Macaulay.
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The intellectual experience of the people was mainly theological and political, as it was everywhere in that day, but there were several among them who had a real love for books, and when they met at the druggist's, as they did every night, to dispute of the inspiration of the Scriptures and the principles of the Free Soil party, the talk sometimes turned upon the respective merits of Dickens and Thackeray, Gibbon and Macaulay, Wordsworth and Byron.
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