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A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf.... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then ... be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties. - Thomas Babington Macaulay Attribution: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859), British historian, Whig politician. Edinburgh Review (Aug. 1825). Milton, Critical and Historical Essays (1843). Referring to Milton’s long lost Treatise on the Doctrines of Christianity.

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