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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in Cicero's De Natura Deorum]: "Equal to anything that Cicero ever did."Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe Natura DeorumPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in the Second Book of Cicero's De Divinatione]: double-lines down the margin of the argument against the credibility of visions and prophecies.Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroDe DivinationePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Ben Jonson's Catiline, by the lines 'Lentulus: The augurs all are constant I am meant / Catiline: They had lost their science else.'...Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben JonsonCatilinePrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, by the translations from Aeschylus and Sophocles in the Second Book]: "Cicero's best".Thomas Babington Macaulay Ben CiceroTusculan DisputationsPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Cicero's Letters, opposite the sentences 'Meum factum probari abs te [...] nihil enim malo quam et me mei similem esse, et illos sui...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLettersPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		[Editorial commentary on Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's speeches]: "Macaulay's pencilled observations upon each successive speech of Cicero form a continuous history o...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroSpeechesPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Epistles to Atticus]: "A kind-hearted man [Cicero], with all his faults." Later, "Poor fellow! He makes a pitiful figure. But it is i...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLetters to AtticusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Second Philippic]: "a most wonderful display of rhetorical talent, worthy of all its fame."Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroSecond PhilippicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia on Cicero's Third Philippic]: "The close of this speech is very fine. His later and earlier speeches have a freedom and an air of sincerity about...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroThird PhilippicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia at the end of Cicero's last Philippic]: "As a man, I think of Cicero much as I always did, except that I am more disgusted with his conduct after ...Thomas Babington Macaulay CiceroLast PhilippicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "It seems incredible that these absurdities of Dionysodorus and Euthydemus should have been mistaken for wisdo...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Glorious irony!"Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Incomparably ludicrous!"Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "No writer, not even Cervantes, was so great a master of this solemn ridicule as Plato."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "There is hardly any comedy, in any language, more diverting than this dialogue. It is not only richly humorou...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Euthydemus]: "Dulcissima hercle, eademque nobilissima vita."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoEuthydemusPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "Plato has been censured with great justice for his doctrine about the community of women and the exposure of ch...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic]: "You may see that Plato was passionately fond of poetry, even when arguing against it."Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, by the passage where Plato recommends a broader patriotism]: "This passage does Plato great honour. Philhellenis...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		 [Macaulay's marginalia in his copy of Plato's Republic, in the Second Book, by the discussion of abstract justice]: "This is indeed a noble dream. Pity that it should c...Thomas Babington Macaulay PlatoRepublicPrint: Book


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