Macaulay's Life of Johnson (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Macaulay's Life of Johnson This edition, it is hoped, has two merits: it attempts to reach an intelligent mean between overediting and underediting, and it contains some convenient drudgery-saving devices for student and teacher. It has been the desire of the editor so to guide the student's approach to Macaulay's essay that the secondary purpose of the essayist - namely, to interest - may be made to no great extent subordinate to the primary purpose, to give information. As the critic Gosse is later quoted: "The most restive of juvenile minds, if induced to enter one of Macaulay's essays, is almost certain to appear at the end of it gratified and to an appreciable extent, cultivated." It is hoped that the introduction will quicken rather than deaden interest. As for the drudgery-saving aids in the appendix, it would surely be a work of supererogation to offer apologies for presenting devices easing and reducing endless school tasks. 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.