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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. "
The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 274
1861
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Literary Studies from the Great British Authors

Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 476 pages
...HISTORY OF ENGLAND. 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...
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An Historical Reader for the Use of Classes in Academies, High Schools, and ...

Henry Elliot Shepherd - History - 1881 - 368 pages
...most gratefully acknowledge. II 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...
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Macaulay

James Cotter Morison - 1882 - 236 pages
...which his groat 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...
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The Verbalist: A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the ...

Alfred Ayres - English language - 1882 - 254 pages
...doing, or to do." " I purpose to write a history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living."—Macaulay. It will be observed that Macaulay says, " I purpose to write," and not, " I purpose...
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Outlines of the Art of Elocution

James L. Ohlson - Elocution - 1883 - 154 pages
...INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND. "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...
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Life, Volume 1

American wit and humor - 1883 - 444 pages
...OWN TIMES. CHAPTER I. PURPOSE to write the history of our country from the accession of Chet. Arthur 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 people from the House of Stalwarts....
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Englische Studien, Volume 6

Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1883 - 500 pages
...literarischen geschmackes« berichtet haben würde, wenn er die geschichte Englands hätte schreiben können down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. In erster linie würden wohl in betracht kommen: Jeremy Collier, Addison, Miss Burney, Byron. — Jeremy...
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Macaulay's Milton, ed. to illustrate the laws of rhetoric and composition by ...

Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Milton.), Alexander Mackie - English language - 1884 - 216 pages
...however, was no 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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A text-book of the Gurney system of shorthand, ed. by W.B. Gurney & sons

Thomas Gurney - 1884 - 120 pages
...ENGLAND, CHAPTER I. 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...
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Latin prose exercises

George Gilbert Ramsay - 1884 - 140 pages
...Holland. CXXI. 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...
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