 ... progress" of useful and ornamental arts, to describe the rise of religious sects and the changes of literary taste, to portray the manners of successive generations, and not to pass by with neglect even the revolutions which have taken place in dress,...  The History of England, from the Accession of James II. - Page 3by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 617 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Arminianism - 1849 - 700 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1885 - 614 pages
...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... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...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 pages
...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,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1849 - 588 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1907 - 708 pages
...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 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1850 - 714 pages
...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 - Classical antiquities - 1852 - 238 pages
...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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