 | Albert Newton Raub - Education - 1894 - 782 pages
...volume the author announces his 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." Yet when ten years later his work was terminated by drath, it had only progressed to the close of the... | |
 | John George Repplier McElroy - English language - 1885 - 362 pages
...his History, " 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." But other writers (or the same writers at other times) merely imply it in a sentence the chief purpose... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1885 - 388 pages
...EXERCISE CCLXXXII. 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... | |
 | 1885 - 286 pages
...opening sentence, was " 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." He did not live, however, to complete the execution of his plan. In speaking of this contemplated work... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - English literature - 1886 - 478 pages
...the first words of the opening chapter, "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;" but he lived to bring it down only to the death of William. His reading in all sorts of the contemporary... | |
 | Eliphalet Oram Lyte - English language - 1886 - 292 pages
...West.—Green. 2. 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.—Macaulay. 3. The curiosity entertained by all civilized nations of inquiring into the exploits... | |
 | Jacques Parmentier - English language - 1887 - 364 pages
...1849. He purposed to write the history of his country ' ' from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living". He had not the time to finish the work. In 1855 he published two other volumes; it was all he could... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1889 - 104 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1889 - 478 pages
...history of England from the accession of King James the Second down ,. -,..,. . ,1 - ,1 f Introduction. 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... | |
 | Augustin Knoflach - Language, Universal - 1890 - 76 pages
...CHAPTER XV.—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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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. 
