 | 1849 - 468 pages
...all his own. " I propose," says Mr. Macaulay, " to write the History of England from the accession of James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living." And we propose, if life and health be spared us, from time to time to lay before our readers such sketches... | |
 | 1849 - 606 pages
...expositor of our civil and religious liberties. As Mr. Macaulay's History of England is to be brought " down to a time which is within the memory of men still living," it will no doubt include the chronicle of the Great Revolution, which, at the close of the last century,... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1848 - 460 pages
...author's purpose are to bring down the history of England " from the accession of King James the Second to a time which is within the memory of men still living," but they are complete in themselves, and no doubt fair samples of all the rest. We need not say that... | |
 | 1848 - 460 pages
...author's purpose are to bring down the history of England " from the accession of King James the Second to a time which is within the memory of men still living," but they are complete in themselves, and no doubt fair samples of all the rest. We need not say that... | |
 | 1849 - 542 pages
...elucidation from some gifted and penetrating mind. Mr. Macaulay announces his purpose to be, " to write the history of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living." Yet no historian would be content to begin such a work in the middle of an era, and it is curious to... | |
 | 1849 - 854 pages
...is now in the Press of the Harpers. It is a kind of programme of the work : " I propose to write the History of England from the Accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living. I shall recount the errors, which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the... | |
 | 1849 - 556 pages
...elucidation from some gifted and penetrating mind. Mr. Macaulay announces his purpose to be, " to write the history of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living." Yet no historian would be content to begin such a work in the middle of an era, and it is curious to... | |
 | 1849 - 818 pages
...have too frequently slurred over with discreditable haste and superficiality. ' I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living. I shall recount the errors which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...Persecution of the Protestant Dissenters - 447 HISTORY OF ENGLAND, CHAPTER I. I PURPOSE to write the history of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living. I shall recount the errors which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CHAPTER L • I PURPOSE to write the history of England from the acces- CHAP. sion of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. I shall recount the errors UOD. which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from... | |
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I PURPOSE to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. 
