M——, having called to see him, and affectionately asking what sort of night he had passed, Sydney Smith replied, Oh, horrid, horrid, my dear fellow! I dreamt I was chained to a rock, and being talked to death by Harriet Martineau and Macaulay.
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Harriet Martineau was a 19th-century English writer and sociologist. Harriet Martineau was an English social theorist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine angle, translated works by Auguste Comte, and, rare for a woman writer at the time, earned enough to support herself. Read more on Wikipedia →

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