 | W M H - 1851 - 786 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." No one will deny that nothing but a very bold and a very noble ambition could encourage any man to... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...?I?tetorjj of @n&lanD. 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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 848 pages
...ornament. In his History of England, Mr. Macaulay has purposed to write the history of our country, from the accession of James II. down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. The two volumes that have been issued present us with a rapid survey of the condition of Britain under... | |
 | 1855 - 670 pages
...publication on the French Revolution: " 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 loyal gentry and priesthood from the... | |
 | American literature - 1855 - 654 pages
...French Revolution : " I propose to write the history of England from the accession of King James IL 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... | |
 | 1856 - 430 pages
...from carrying out his original design of writing " the History of England, from the accession of King James II., down to a time which is within the memory of men still living." For Hume has brought us down to the abdication of James IL, in his great work, and just so far as Macaulay... | |
 | 1856 - 506 pages
...says, in his opening sentence, "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." He then goes on to state further in detail what he shall do, and in the first three pages of his history... | |
 | Henry Musgrave Wilkins - Latin language - 1857 - 210 pages
...ORIGINAL PASSAGE. 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... | |
 | 1858 - 798 pages
...his original design, " of writing 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," he may be spared at least to complete that great drama of the Revolution, which was closed by the accession... | |
 | Ireland - 1858 - 770 pages
...his original design, " of writing 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," he may be spared at least to complete that great drama of the Revolution, which was closed by the accession... | |
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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. 
