| 1849 - 700 páginas
...furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having deicended below the dignity of history, if I can succeed in...the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of thcii ancestors. The events which I propose to relate form only a single act of a great and eventful... | |
| 1885 - 614 páginas
...well-known passage, after explaining his views of the historian's duties, he has avowed that he will ' cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below...of history if I can succeed in placing before the Englishmen of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.' This is the cardinal... | |
| 1849 - 606 páginas
...dignity of history" must be set aside. Macaulay has made up his mind to bear such accusations. " I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history," he says, " if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true .picture... | |
| 1849 - 818 páginas
...even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...true picture of the life of their ancestors.' The work is appropriately introduced by a brief and masterly sketch of the previous history of our country,... | |
| 1849 - 588 páginas
...even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the lives of their ancestors." — Vol. ip 3. The extensive and multifarious reading of Mr. Macaulay, his... | |
| 1849 - 778 páginas
...even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the lives of their ancestors. — Vol. ip 3. The extensive and multifarious reading of Mr. Maeaulay, his... | |
| 1907 - 708 páginas
...be popular. Macaulay's own statement is: "I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having de«cended below the dignity of history, if I can succeed in...century a true picture of the life of their ancestors." This represents one great merit of his ' History ' — the fact that it is not a mere " drum and trumpet... | |
| 1849 - 588 páginas
...dignity of history" must be set aside. Macaulay 'has made up his mind to bear such accusations. " I eable ; but in Lamb, thin even to mcagerness, he says, "if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 714 páginas
...even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...ancestors. The events which I propose to relate form only a jungle act, of a great and eventful drama extending through ages, and must be very imperfectly understood... | |
| Wilhelm Herbst - 1852 - 238 páginas
...which have taken place in dres% furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bcar the reproach of having descended below the dignity...placing before the English of the nineteenth Century a truc picturc of the life of their auccstors.' eben oft machen, dh sie werden ihn nicht selten aus seiner... | |
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