 | Fashion - 1849 - 468 pages
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Universalism - 1861 - 462 pages
...sentence — " 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." What a feaet for the intellect was promised here ! The story of the great English revolution... | |
 | Thomas Powell - Authors, English - 1849 - 324 pages
...Herodotus' 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 living. " I shall recount the errors which, in a few months, alienated a legal gentry and priesthood... | |
 | 1849 - 778 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1849 - 636 pages
...insists upon wielding, the sceptre of a god. 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 Itevolution, which, at the close of the... | |
 | 1849 - 818 pages
...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... | |
 | Theology - 1849 - 788 pages
...already obtained. But two volumes are published ; several more are to come, as it is to be brought " down to a time which is within the memory of men still living." No little impatience and anxiety will be felt to see the result of Mr. Macaulay's future labors.... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1849 - 542 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 884 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
