Life and Letters of Zachary Macaulay (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Life and Letters of Zachary Macaulay<br><br>Scorn Thy grace Thy power defy That poor rebel Lord was I.<br><br>I am indeed a signal monument of God''s long-suffering and tender mercy. What shall I render to Him for all His benefits?<br><br>Soon after I reached the age of fourteen I became in a great measure my own master by being removed from the control of my father and mother and placed in a merchant''s counting house in Glasgow. This was a line of life which I entered upon with great regret for I had at that time a strong passion for literature; but I acquiesced readily in my father''s determina tion from perceiving that his stipend could not well afford the expense of a literary education.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition. We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.