 | 1849 - 700 Seiten
...furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having deicended below the dignity of history, if I can succeed in...placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of thcii ancestors. The events which I propose to relate form only a single... | |
 | 1885 - 614 Seiten
...after explaining his views of the historian's duties, he has avowed that he will ' cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity 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 Seiten
...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 of the life of their ancestors." No one will dare to say that he has not succeeded ;... | |
 | 1849 - 818 Seiten
...which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity...placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.' The work is appropriately introduced by a brief and masterly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 Seiten
...which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity...placing before the ' English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. The events which I propose to relate form only a single... | |
 | 1849 - 588 Seiten
...which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity...placing .before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the lives of their ancestors." — Vol. ip 3. The extensive and multifarious reading... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 480 Seiten
...which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity...placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors. The events which I propose to relate form only a single... | |
 | 1849 - 588 Seiten
...which have taken place in "dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear ܅ Ђp l- C -u42< :e FZ AZk16pw ! true picture of the lives of their ancestors." — Vol. i, p. 3. The extensive and multifarious reading... | |
 | 1849 - 778 Seiten
...which have taken place in dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity...placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the lives of their ancestors. — Vol. ip 3. The extensive and multifarious reading... | |
 | 1907 - 708 Seiten
...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...placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors." This represents one great merit of his ' History ' —... | |
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... 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, furniture, repasts, and public... 
