[996]. Is there anyone whose name cannot be twisted into either praise or satire? I have had given to me,
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Mouths big: a Cantab anomaly.
—De Morgan, A.
Budget of Paradoxes (London, 1872), p. 83.
CHAPTER X
PERSONS AND ANECDOTES
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[1001]. When he had a few moments for diversion, he [Napoleon] not unfrequently employed them over a book of logarithms, in which he always found recreation.—Abbott, J. S. C.