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Essays, critical and miscellaneous
Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay · 1869 · Scanned text
774,738 words · about 54 h 15 min to read
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Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1869, author long deceased · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/15016803); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)
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- 1869
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- 774,738 words · about 54 h 15 min
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- Front matter about 39 h 6 min
- Preface about 33 min
- 1. Lah* Porsena of Clusium about 1 h 22 min
- Appendix about 13 h 14 min
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