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" ... 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 - Page 172
by William Nassau Molesworth - 1874
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 161

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...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 16

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...
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The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...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...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 464 pages
...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...
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The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...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...
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The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]

1849 - 818 pages
...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...
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The Daguerreotype, Volume 3

American periodicals - 1849 - 588 pages
...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...
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Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Volume 39

1849 - 778 pages
...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...
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Notes and Queries

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...
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