ESSAYS ON POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE, CONTRIBUTED CHIEFLY TO THE EDINBURGH REVIEW. BY WILLIAM R. GREG. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS. 1853. CONTENTS DR. ARNOLD'S LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY DR. ARNOLD'S LIFE AND CORRESPONDENCE LAING ON PEASANT PROPRIETORSHIP, &C. ESSAYS ON POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE CONTRIBUTED TO VARIOUS REVIEWS. DR. ARNOLD'S LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY.* FEW names have been more widely known, and none have been more universally respected, in England, than that of Dr. Arnold. As head master of Rugby school, his sphere of usefulness was extensive, and his reputation deservedly high; while his various theological writings insured him a corresponding estimation in the religious world; and, to say nothing of his valuable edition of Thucydides, his History of Rome, unhappily still a fragment, which was destined to supply a longfelt desideratum in our literature, placed him at once in the very foremost rank among scholars and historians. Unfinished as it is, it will always retain its place as one of the finest historical fragments in our language; and in our humble opinion, enough even now remains to justify a conviction that, had he lived to complete it, it * From the "Westminster Review." 1. Dr. Arnold's Sermons on the Christian Course and Character. 1841. 2. Introductory Lectures on Modern History. By Dr. ARNOLD. Oxford: 1842. |