| John George Repplier McElroy - 1885 - 362 pages
...two of his essays quoted above; or Lord Macaulay, who begins his History, " I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living." But other writers (or the same writers at other times) merely imply it in a sentence the chief purpose... | |
| George Gilbert Ramsay - 1885 - 388 pages
...fields, but upon the election hustings, and in courts of law. EXERCISE CCLXXXII. 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... | |
| Albert Newton Raub - 1894 - 782 pages
...author announces his 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." Yet when ten years later his work was terminated by drath, it had only progressed to the close of the... | |
| Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 pages
...words of the opening chapter, "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;" but he lived to bring it down only to the death of William. His reading in all sorts of the contemporary... | |
| Jacques Parmentier - 1887 - 364 pages
...years when the first two volumes appeared in 1849. He purposed to write the history of his country ' ' from the accession of King James the Second down to...which is within the memory of men still living". He had not the time to finish the work. In 1855 he published two other volumes; it was all he could do... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1889 - 104 pages
...before the English public. As a Historian : In 1848 appeared the first two volumes of Macaulay's 2 History of England, "from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living." The third and fourth volumes were issued in 1855. The success of these volumes was great and immediate.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1889 - 478 pages
...history of England from the accession of King James the Second down ,. -,..,. . ,1 - ,1 f Introduction. 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... | |
| Augustin Knoflach - 1890 - 76 pages
...The adverb of bad, ready, beautiful, able, whole, foul, sole. To CHAPTER XV.—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... | |
| 1890 - 330 pages
...17. The plan of the work was a great one. " I purpose," he said in its first sentence, " to write the history of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living." Macaulay did not live to complete his design. The third and fourth volumes were published in 1855.... | |
| Alexander Bain - 1890 - 376 pages
...under discussion. The first sentence of the History is this: 'I purpose to write the history of Kngland from the accession of King James the Second down to...time which is within the memory of men still living'. The paragraph that follows, gives a general view of the political events to be passed in review, but... | |
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