 | Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 340 pages
...edition, before he begins to tell what he purposes to do. " I purpose," begins Macaulay, " to write the history of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living/ And so on, for a page or two, distinctly laying down the plan of the great work he never finished.... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1894 - 338 pages
...edition, before he begins to tell what he purposes to do. " I purpose," begins Macaulay, " to write the history of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living." And so on, for a page or two, distinctly laying down the plan of the great work he never finished.... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 338 pages
...edition, before he begins to tell what he purposes to do. " I purpose," begins Macaulay, " to write the history of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living." And so on, for a page or two, distinctly laying down the plan of the great work he never finished.... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - 1891 - 340 pages
...edition, before he begins to tell what he purposes to do. " I purpose," begins Macaulay, " to write the history of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living." And so on, for a page or two, distinctly laying down the plan of the great work he never finished.... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - 1891 - 212 pages
...following examples will show plainly how explicit such indications should be : — " 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... | |
 | William Benton Chamberlain - 1892 - 408 pages
...unemotional sentence with which Macaulay introduces his History of England. I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living. We can mentally add many considerations showing the interest and enthusiasm of the great historian... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 104 pages
...gam to Macaulay. He purposed to write "A History of England, from the accession of King James II., down to a time which is within the memory of men still living," and his official duties forced him to lay this project aside for the present. Fortunately Lord Melbourne's... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 344 pages
...Macaulay, because he purposed to write " A History of England, from the accession of King James II. down to a time which is within the memory of men still living," and his official duties forced him to lay this project aside for a time. Fortunately Lord Melbourne's... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1892 - 572 pages
...fabric. The first and second volumes of Macaulay's " History of England, from the time of James II. down to a time which is within the memory of men still living," appeared in 1849, and won immediate success. The work did not, however, escape censure ; John Wilson... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 138 pages
...gain to Macaulay. He purposed to write "A History of England, from the accession of King James II., down to a time which is within the memory of men still living," and his official duties forced him to lay this project aside for the present. Fortunately Lord Melbourne's... | |
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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. 
