 | Henry George John Clements - 1860 - 176 pages
...read to you. "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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1862 - 620 pages
...which Macaulay proposed to himself has been accomplished. He has not, indeed, written the History of England from the accession of James II., "down to...the comprehensive and ambitious design with which ho started. It soon must have become obvious to himself that the scheme which he had sketched in his... | |
 | John Timbs - Humorists, English - 1862 - 422 pages
...judge. Here is Macaulay : — 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... | |
 | William Francis Collier - American literature - 1862 - 550 pages
...great one. " 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," are the opening words of the opening chapter. He has brought the work down only to the death of William... | |
 | William Francis Collier - 1862 - 678 pages
...great one. " 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," are the opening words of the opening chapter. He has brought the work down only to the death of William... | |
 | Theology - 1863 - 924 pages
...announced his 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," his most hopeful readers doubted if the work, postponed to so late a period of life, would ever be... | |
 | Charles Spence (of Liverpool.) - 1863 - 60 pages
...Macaulay wrote— " 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." That ending never came, for he who was to write it lies at rest in the grand old Abbey of Westminster.... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1864 - 816 pages
...PUEPOSE to write the History of Engintrodne 'an(l from the accession of King •'<">• James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still Hying. I shall recount the errors which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1866 - 668 pages
...CHAPTEE I. I PUEPOSE 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 introducerrors which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and tionpriesthood... | |
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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. 
