| But in the very same essay, Macaulay supposes Bacon the man to be thoroughly deceitful, self-seeking, and lacking in moral fibre. |
| Well over a century before Macaulay wrote on Bacon, John Aubrey had given a somewhat adulatory account of Bacon's life. |
| Macaulay sat down by his mother, and began telling the incidents of the day's hunting in his smooth, unmodulated voice. |
| Winner of the boys' 90 metres handicap race was eight-year-old Macaulay Dixon from Ulverston. |
| What he suffered at the hands of Croker and Macaulay is typical of his fortune. |
| But it is safe to say that Thucydides tells us as much that is worth knowing as Macaulay. |
