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" We find in it the diligence, the accuracy, and the judgment of Hallam, united to the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book in the language. It would be more in... "
Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review - Page 209
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 80

1856 - 834 pages
...than in Mr Macaulay's own words, long ago written, and sounding now like a prophecy of his own fame. "A history of England, written throughout in this...at the circulating libraries than the last novel." What our historian thus said of Mackintosh, his illustrious friend and predecessor, has come true to...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 pages
...diligence, the accuracy, and the judgment of Hallam, united to the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner,...not, we think, gifted with poetical imagination. But .the lower kind of imagination which is necessary to the historian, he had in large measure. It is...
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A Discourse on the Study of the Law of Nature and Nations

Sir James Mackintosh, J. G. Marvin - 1843 - 130 pages
...diligence, the accuracy, and the judgment of Hallam, united to the vivacity and the coloring of Southey. A History of England, written throughout, in this...at the circulating libraries than the last novel. Almost all the distinguished writers, who have treated of English history, are advocates. Mr. Hallam...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...diligence, the accuracy, and the judgment ol Hallam, united to the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. y. The characteristic peculiarity of his intellect was bt man in request at Ae circulating libraries than the last novel. Sir James was not, ire think, gifted...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 5; Volume 11

1850 - 766 pages
...through his imaginary plan, " written in this manner, would be the most fascinating book of the age. It would be more in request at the circulating libraries than the last novel." A fleeting shadow of this coming event to be realized so gratifyingly in his own case, doubtless prompted...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 5; Volume 11

1850 - 762 pages
...through his imaginary plan, " written in this manner, would be the most fascinating book of the age. It would be more in request at the circulating libraries than the last novel." A fleeting shadow of this coming event to be realized so gratifyingly in his own case, doubtless prompted...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...the colouring of Southev. A hislorv of England, written througnout in tms manner, wou.d be the mam fascinating book in the language. It would be more...at the circulating libraries than the last novel. lAr James was not, we think, gifted with poetical imagination. But the lower kind of imagination which...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 950 pages
...Hallam, united to the vivacity and the colouring of Southey. A history of England, written tliroughout in this manner, would be the most fascinating book...imagination which is necessary to the historian he luid in large measure. It is not the business of the historian to create new worlds and to people them...
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Meliora, Volumes 3-4

1861 - 774 pages
...the accuracy, and the judgment •of Hallam, united to the vivacity and the colouring of Southey — a history of England written throughout in this manner...at the circulating libraries than the last novel.' This was •written in 1835, and accurately foretold the fortune of his own history twenty years later....
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 3

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 466 pages
...of Southey. A history of England, written throughout in this manner, would bo the most faseinating book in the language. It would be more in request at the eireulating libraries than the last novel. Sir James was not, we think, gifted with poetieal imagination....
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