 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), Francis Romano Oliphant - 1892 - 382 pages
...and had already laid out the plan of a great historical book extending from the reign of James II. " down to a time which is within the memory of men still (1840) living." We all know that this great work was never finished, nor are we sure that it is to... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret), Francis Romano Oliphant - 1892 - 382 pages
...and had already laid out the plan of a great historical book extending from the reign of James II. "down to a time which is within the memory of men still (1840) living." We all know that this great work was never finished, nor are we sure that it is to... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1893 - 460 pages
...gratefully acknowledge. 1 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 184 pages
...RESTORATION OF THE KINO . . ... 136 . . . • ... 139 HISTORY OF ENGLAND1 CHAPTEE 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... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1896 - 308 pages
...statement of purpose in the paragraph. Compare the opening of Macaulay's 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." 133, II. 6. Note how, in this and in the succeeding paragraphs, the subject is distinctly stated at... | |
 | James Cotter Morison - 1902 - 216 pages
...great work opens, — " 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." It is impossible to read the forecast he made of his work on the eve of his journey to Italy without... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 466 pages
...copies were sold in the United Kingdom by one publisher. But the work on which he was now intent was the 'History of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living.' The idea of such a narrative had long been in his mind; but it was not till 1841 that he began seriously... | |
 | Richard D. Graham - 1897 - 552 pages
...according to its opening sentence, it was the 2O2 Victorian Literature purpose of the author ' to write the history of England from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living.' The run upon this work was enormous. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. Edition after edition... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1900 - 434 pages
...which he planned his narratives. In the introduction to his first volume he proposed to carry this down to " a time which is within the memory of men still living." Yet, beginning with 1685, he was able barely to complete the Seventeenth Century, and the whole Eighteenth... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 554 pages
...MACAULAY'S PLAN OF THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. I purpose 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. 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. 
