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Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, with a Selection from His Essay On

Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, with a Selection from His Essay On by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay is available here as the complete text, split into 425 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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