 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...late obligations. Robertson. XXXVII. IntroDuction to ?I?tetorjj of @n&lanD. 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... | |
 | 1853 - 848 pages
...England, Mr. Macaulay has purposed to write the history of our country, from the accession of James II. down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. The two volumes that have been issued present us with a rapid survey of the condition of Britain under... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1855 - 556 pages
...Dissenters, 524 HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CHAPTER 1. I PURPOSE to write the history of England from the accesof King James the Second down to a 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... | |
 | 1855 - 654 pages
...French Revolution : " I propose to write the history of England from the accession of King James IL down to a 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... | |
 | 1855 - 670 pages
...French Revolution: " I propose to write the history of England from the accession of King James II. down to a 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... | |
 | 1856 - 506 pages
...purpose," he says, in his opening sentence, "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." He then goes on to state further in detail what he shall do, and in the first three pages of his history... | |
 | 1856 - 430 pages
...out his original design of writing " the History of England, from the accession of King James II., down to a time which is within the memory of men still living." For Hume has brought us down to the abdication of James IL, in his great work, and just so far as Macaulay... | |
 | Henry Musgrave Wilkins - 1857 - 210 pages
...have despised true glory admire35 its counterfeit.36 XXXIX. ORIGINAL PASSAGE. 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... | |
 | 1858 - 770 pages
...profound historical and constitutional learning, civil prudence, and parliamentary reputation, England may long possess the advantage of his powers. And...England that Parliamentary government in which, in his OWTI generation, he has taken a conspicuous part. ' History of England, vol. ii. THE ROYAL BRIDAL.... | |
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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. 
