 | Fashion - 1849 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...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,... | |
 | Virginia - 1848 - 460 pages
...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 - Virginia - 1848 - 460 pages
...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... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1849 - 542 pages
...requiring elucidation from some gifted and penetrating mind. Mr. Macaulay announces his purpose to be, " to write the history of England from the accession...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... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1849 - 546 pages
...requiring elucidation from some gifted and penetrating mind. Mr. Macaulay announces his purpose to be, " to write the history of England from the accession...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 Powell - Authors, English - 1849 - 324 pages
...opening sentence. " 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...recount the errors which, in a few months, alienated a legal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. I shall trace the course of that revolution which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...HISTORY OF 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...memory of men still living. I shall recount the errors UOD. which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. I shall... | |
 | 1849 - 778 pages
...ENGLAND.* < т PURPOSE to write,' says Mr. MaJ_ caulay, ' the history of England from the accession of James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living;' — a task often undertaken and performed before, and which even Mr. Macaulay's labours will not prevent... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 588 pages
...ENGLAND.« " I purpose to write," says Mr. Macaulay, " the history of England from the accession of James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living ;" — a task often undertaken and performed before, and which even Mr. Macaulay's labors will not... | |
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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. 
