 ... 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 Year 1830-1874 - 172. lappuseautors: William Nassau Molesworth - 1874Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | 1849 - 700 lapas
...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 lapas
...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 lapas
..." 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 lapas
...neglect even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. The events which I propose to relate form only a single act of a great and eventful drama extending... | |
 | 1849 - 818 lapas
...neglect even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...century a 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 464 lapas
...neglect even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. The events which I propose to relate form only a single act of a great and eventful drama extending... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 lapas
...neglect even the revolutions which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended...century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. The events which I propose to relate form only a single act of a great and eventful drama extending... | |
 | 1849 - 778 lapas
...neglect 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... | |
 | 1849 - 588 lapas
...neglect 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... | |
 | 1907 - 708 lapas
...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... | |
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