 | 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... | |
 | 1849 - 818 pages
...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...which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. I shall trace the course of that revolution which terminated the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...Dissenters - 447 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...which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. I shall trace the course of that revolution which terminated the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 480 pages
....... 447 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...which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. I shall trace the course of that revolution which terminated the... | |
 | 1849 - 854 pages
...is a 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...which, in a few months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the house of Stuart. I shall trace the course ofthat revolution which terminated the... | |
 | 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 - Great Britain - 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... | |
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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. 
