Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays (Vol. 1-6)

This anthology, a labor of love spanning six volumes, showcases the diverse talents of Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, a British historian and politician. Macaulay's brings together unparalleled essays, offering readers a holistic view of his erudition, historical insights, and literary critiques.

Table of Contents:

Volume 1:

Fragments of a Roman Tale

On the Royal Society of Literature

Scenes from «Athenian Revels»

Criticism on the Principal Italian Writers

Some Account of the Great Lawsuit between the Parishes of St. Dennis and St. George in the Water

A Conversation between Mr. Abraham Cowley and Mr. John Milton, Touching the Great Civil War, Set Down by a Gentleman of the Middle Temple

On the Athenian Orators

A Prophetic Account of a Grand National Epic Poem, to be Entitled «The Wellingtoniad,» and to be Published A. D. 2824

On Mitford's History of Greece

Milton

Machiavelli

John Dryden

History

Hallam

Volume 2:

Mill on Government

Westminster Reviewer's Defence of Mill

Utilitarian Theory of Government

Southey's Colloquies

Mr. Robert Montgomery

Sadler's Law of Population

John Bunyan

Sadler's Refutation Refuted

Civil Disabilities of the Jews

Moore's Life of Lord Byron

Samuel Johnson

John Hampden

Volume 3:

Burleigh and His Times

Mirabeau

War of the Succession in Spain

Horace Walpole

William Pitt, Earl of Chatham

Sir James Mackintosh

Lord Bacon

Volume 4:

Sir William Temple

Gladstone on Church and State

Lord Clive

Von Ranke

Leigh Hunt

Lord Holland

Volume 5:

Warren Hastings

Frederic the Great

Madame D'Arblay

The Life and Writings of Addison

Barère

Volume 6:

The Earl of Chatham

Francis Atterbury

John Bunyan

Oliver Goldsmith

Samuel Johnson

William Pitt

The West Indies

The London University

Social and Industrial Capacities of Negroes

The Present Administration