 | Henry George John Clements - 1860 - 176 pages
...language, or for sentiment, a better representative passage to read to you. "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... | |
 | 1861 - 620 pages
...accomplished. He has not, indeed, written the History of England from the accession of James II. ' down to a time which is within the memory of men still living,' according to the comprehensive and ambitious design with which he started. It soon must have become... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...MACAULAY'S " HISTORY OF ENGLAND." Decline and Fall. The plan was a great one. " I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living," are the opening words of the opening chapter. He has brought the work down only to the death of William... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 550 pages
...to the reception of Gibbon's AD Decline and Fall. The plan was a great one. " I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living," are the opening words of the opening chapter. He has brought the work down only to the death of William... | |
 | John Timbs - 1862 - 422 pages
...Here is Macaulay : — I purpose 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... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pages
..." man proposes and God disposes." In the opening chapter Macaulay wrote— " I purpose to write the History of England, from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living." That ending never came, for he who was to write it lies at rest in the grand old Abbey of Westminster.... | |
 | 1863 - 924 pages
...after a long and brilliant career in literature and statesmanship, announced his purpose " to write the history of England from the accession of king James...time which is within the memory of men still living," his most hopeful readers doubted if the work, postponed to so late a period of life, would ever be... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 668 pages
...HISTORY OF ENGLAND, CHAPTEE I. I PUEPOSE 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 introducerrors which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and tionpriesthood... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - 1867 - 296 pages
...began the work which he contemplated and announced in the very first sentence of the book as " The History of England from the " accession of King James...which " is within the memory of men still living." We know, as a matter of fact, that it did not reach continuously to the end of the succeeding reign.... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1867 - 414 pages
...commemmorare. SH Витсывк. 19 MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND, CHAP. 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... | |
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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. 
