Excerpt from Macaulay Early Life. Thomas B. Macaulay was born in England, October 25, 1800. His parents resided at Clapham, a suburb of London, and here Macaulay spent the first few years of his life. His fond mother writes concerning him My dear Tom continues to show marks of uncommon genius. He gets on wonderfully in all branches of his education, and the extent of his reading, and the knowledge he has derived from it, are truly astonishing in a boy not yet eight years old. At that early period he wrote a short compendium of universal history, and a youthful poem in imitation of Scott's Marmion, which he knew nearly by heart. Among the friends of the family was Miss Hannah More, who took a deep interest in the bright, intelligent lad. Though you are a little boy now, she writes, you will one day, if it please God, be a man; but long before you are a man I hope you will be a scholar. I therefore wish you to pur chase such books as will be useful and agreeable to you then, and that you employ this very small sum in laying a little tiny corner-stone for your future library. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.