"Portions of the speech were as beautiful as anything I have ever heard or read. It reminded one of the old times."

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Robert Peel on Macaulay's first speech on the Reform Bill (2 March 1831), quoted in G. O. Trevelyan, The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volume I (1876), p. 175