| Fashion - 1849 - 468 pages
...propose," says Mr. Macaulay, " 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." And we propose, if life and health be spared us, from time to time to lay before our readers such sketches... | |
| American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...expositor of our civil and religious liberties. As Mr. Macaulay's History of England is to be brought " down to a time which is within the memory of men still living," it will no doubt include the chronicle of the Great Revolution, which, at the close of the last century,... | |
| Universalism - 1861 - 462 pages
...sentence — " 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." What a feaet for the intellect was promised here ! The story of the great English revolution which,... | |
| William Maxwell - Virginia - 1848 - 460 pages
...author's purpose are to bring down the history of England " from the accession of King James the Second to a time which is within the memory of men still living," but they are complete in themselves, and no doubt fair samples of all the rest. We need not say that... | |
| Virginia - 1848 - 460 pages
...author's purpose are to bring down the history of England " from the accession of King James the Second to a time which is within the memory of men still living," but they are complete in themselves, and no doubt fair samples of all the rest. We need not say that... | |
| Thomas Powell - Authors, English - 1849 - 324 pages
...Herodotus' opening sentence. " 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 legal gentry and priesthood from the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 884 pages
...L • I PURPOSE 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 errors UOD. which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from... | |
| 1849 - 818 pages
...superficiality. ' 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. I shall recount the errors which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the... | |
| 1849 - 854 pages
...the work : " I propose 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. I shall recount the errors, which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the... | |
| 1849 - 588 pages
...expositor of our civil and religious liberties. As Mr. Macaulay's History of England is to be brought " during which my health suffered more from bad air and the stifl it will no doubt include the chronicle of the Great Revolution, which, at the close of the last century,... | |
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