...reality of flesh and blood persons whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified characters in an allegory, to call up our ancestors before us...to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture," — this, says Lord Macaulay, is the true aim of history ; but there is another class of writers who,...

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...reality of flesh and blood persons whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified characters in an allegory, to call up our ancestors before us...to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture," — this, says Lord Macaulay, is the true aim of history ; but there is another class of writers who,...

...overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...have been appropriated by the historical novelist. ... Sir Walter Scott gives us a novel ; Mr. Hallam a critical and argumentative history. Both are occupied...

...overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...been appropriated by the historical novelist."— MACADLAY'S Essay on Hallam. LONDON PRINTED BY SPOTT I a WO ODK AND CO. NEW-STKEKT SQUARE TO LADY TREVELYAN...

...field of a mighty battle, to invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings of a bygone age, to call up our ancestors before us with all their peculiarities of language, manners, and dress, to show us over their houses and seat us at their tables, and to initiate us into the mysteries...

...invest with the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as O personified qualities in an allegory, to call up our...before us with all their peculiarities of language, 1 The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII, to the Death of George II....

...FLEET STREET, LONDON, EC or 385390 PREFACE. LORD MACAULAY, in one of his essays, thus writes:- — " To call up our ancestors before us, with all their...rummage their old-fashioned wardrobes, to explain the use of their ponderous furniture ; — these parts of the duty, which properly belongs to the historian,...

...overlooks the field of a mighty battle, to invest with -the reality of human flesh and blood beings whom we are too much inclined to consider as personified qualities...houses, to seat us at their tables, to rummage their old fashioned wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture, these parts of the duty...