 | 1883 - 444 sidor
...OWN TIMES. CHAPTER I. PURPOSE to write the history of our country from the accession of Chet. Arthur down to a time which is within the memory of men still...the errors which in a few months alienated a loyal people from the House of Stalwarts. I shall trace the long struggle between the party of Tweedle Dum... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1883 - 500 sidor
...literarischen geschmackes« berichtet haben würde, wenn er die geschichte Englands hätte schreiben können down to a time which is within the memory of men still living. In erster linie würden wohl in betracht kommen: Jeremy Collier, Addison, Miss Burney, Byron. — Jeremy... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1884 - 140 sidor
...Holland. CXXI. 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...months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. I shall trace the course of that revolution which terminated the long struggle between... | |
 | Thomas Gurney - 1884 - 120 sidor
...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...months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. I shall trace the course of that revolution which terminated the long struggle between... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays], Milton.), Alexander Mackie - 1884 - 216 sidor
...Ministry of Lord Melbourne. The position, however, was no gain to Macaulay. He purposed to write " A History of England, from the accession of King James...time which is within the memory of men still living," and his official duties forced him to lay this project aside for the present. Fortunately Lord Melbourne's... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1885 - 388 sidor
...EXERCISE CCLXXXII. 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...months, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. I shall trace the course of that revolution which terminated the long struggle between... | |
 | Albert Newton Raub - 1894 - 782 sidor
...TakeNMacaulay's History of England, for instance. In his first volume the author announces his purpose, "to write the history of England from the accession...time which is within the memory of men still living." Yet when ten years later his work was terminated by drath, it had only progressed to the close of the... | |
 | 1885 - 286 sidor
...opening sentence, was " 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." He did not live, however, to complete the execution of his plan. In speaking of this contemplated work... | |
 | John George Repplier McElroy - 1885 - 362 sidor
...his History, " 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." But other writers (or the same writers at other times) merely imply it in a sentence the chief purpose... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 sidor
...prevented him from accomplishing. He prepared, as he tells us in the first words of the opening chapter, "to write the history of England from the accession...time which is within the memory of men still living;" but he lived to bring it down only to the death of William. His reading in all sorts of the contemporary... | |
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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. 
