Thomas Babington Macaulay: A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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