 ... 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. - Strana 3podľa Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - Počet stránok 617Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1849 - Počet stránok 700
...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 - Počet stránok 614
...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 - Počet stránok 606
...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 - Počet stránok 818
...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 - Počet stránok 588
...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 - Počet stránok 778
...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 - Počet stránok 708
...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 - Počet stránok 588
...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 - Počet stránok 714
...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 - Počet stránok 238
...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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