 | 1849 - 468 pągines
...felicitous illustration all his own. " I 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... | |
 | 1849 - 606 pągines
...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,... | |
 | 1848 - 460 pągines
...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... | |
 | William Maxwell - 1848 - 460 pągines
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 588 pągines
...MACAULAY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.« " I purpose to write," says Mr. Macaulay, " the history of England from the accession of James the Second down to a time...and performed before, and which even Mr. Macaulay's labors will not prevent others in times to come from attempting. The epoch chosen is among the most... | |
 | 1849 - 854 pągines
...kind of programme of 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pągines
...ENGLAND. CHAPTER 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 - 542 pągines
...Macaulay announces his purpose to be, " 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." Yet no historian would be content to begin such a work in the middle of an era, and it is curious to... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 480 pągines
...HISTORY OF 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... | |
 | 1849 - 818 pągines
...discreditable haste and 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... | |
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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. 
