...return to England is very doubtful. But I am more than half determined to abandon politics, and to give myself wholly to letters ; to undertake some...business and the amusement of my life ; and to leave the pleasure of pestiferous rooms, sleepless nights, aching heads, and diseased stomachs to Roebuck and...

...return to England, is very doubtful. But I am more than half determined to abandon politics, and to give myself wholly to letters ; to undertake some...pleasures of pestiferous rooms, sleepless nights, aching heads, and diseased stomachs to Roebuck and to Praed. In England I might probably be of a very...

...Gibbon, of Lord Chatham to that of Johnson ? ' I am more than half determined to abandon politics, and to give myself wholly to letters; to undertake some great...pleasures of pestiferous rooms, sleepless nights, aching heads, and diseased stomachs to Roebuck and to Praed.' At the close of 1837 Macaulay embarked...

...Gibbon, of Lord Chatham to that of Johnson ? I am more than half determined to abandon politics, and to give myself wholly to letters ; to undertake some...business and the amusement of my life ; and to leave the pleasure- s of pestiferous rooms, sleepless nights, aching heads, and diseased stomachs to Koebuck...

...the House of Lords, where it was destined to undergo a mutilation which was fatal to its existence. work which may be at once the business and the amusement...pleasures of pestiferous rooms, sleepless nights, aching heads, and diseased stomachs, to Koebuck and to Praed. In England I might probably be of a very...

...I return to England is very doubtful. But I am more than half determined to abandon politics and to give myself wholly to letters ; to undertake some...pleasures of pestiferous rooms, sleepless nights, aching heads, and diseased stomachs, to Roebuck and to Praed. . . . For what is it that the politician...

...return to England, is very doubtful But I am more than half determined to abandon politics, and to give myself wholly to letters ; to undertake some...may be at once the business and the amusement of my pronounces Caesar's Latin to be the most elegant, with one implied exception, that had ever been heard...

...has ever seen. 137 PAET II. HISTORIAN. ' I AM more than half determined to abandon politics and to give myself wholly to letters, to undertake some great...at once the business and the amusement of my life.' l So wrote Macaulay in a letter from India in 1835. Many years, however, elapsed before he published...

...squander their intellect, their health, and energy on such subjects as those which most statesmen are engaged in pursuing. He was already, he says, " more...Praed." In 1838 Macaulay and his sister Hannah, who had now become Lady Trevelyan, returned to England. He at once entered parliament as member for Edinburgh....

...squander their intellect, their health, and energy on such subjects as those which most statesmen are engaged in pursuing. He was already, he says, "more...historical work, which may be at once the business and amusement of my life, and to leave the pleasures of pestiferous rooms, sleepless nights, and diseased...