CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL

ESSAYS

CONTRIBUTED TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW

BY LORD MACAULAY

A New Edition

LONDON

LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND DYER

1883

ΤΟ

FRANCIS JEFFREY

THESE ESSAYS ARE DEDICATED,

IN TOKEN

OF THE ESTEEM, ADMIRATION, AND AFFECTION

OF HIS FRIEND

THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY.