 Captain. It might have been expected, that every Englishman who takes any interest in any part of history would be curious to know how a handful of his countrymen, separated from their home by an immense ocean, subjugated, in the course of a few years,...  The Edinburgh Review - Page 2961840Full view - About this book
 | 632 pages
...handful of his cotmtrvmcn. separated from th^ir home bv" errimmense ocean, subjngated, in the corj-se of a few years, one of the greatest empires in the...readers, not only insipid, but positively distasteful. Edinburgh Reriai: OTIOPOSITIOK TO CBOSB THB ATLANTIC IX A BALlrtOlT. Mr. C. Gret-n has published the... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 pages
...Englishman who takes any interval in any part of history would be curious to know how a handful of his countrymen, separated from their home by an immense...few years, one of the greatest empires in the world MUSEUM.—APRIL, 1840. Perhaps the fault lies partly with the historians. Mr. Mill's book, though it... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...Englishman who takes any interest in any part of history would be curious to know how a handful of gli'. to be substituted for that of Gny Fawkes, in...youth of England annually commemorate the preservation Vet, unless we greatly err, this subject is to most readers not only insipid, but positively distasteful.... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...Englishman who takes any interest in any part of history would be curious to know how a handful of ed by n@ *eaties, and recorded in no archives. They... > ! " 1852 A. Hart A Vet, unless we greatly err, this subject is to most readers not only insipid, but positively distasteful.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 pages
...Englishman who takes any interest in any part of history would be curious to know how a handful of his countrymen, separated from their home by an immense...readers not only insipid, but positively distasteful. We fear that Sir John Malcolm's volumes will not much attract those readers whoin Orme and Mill have... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 pages
...Englishman who takes aay interest in any part of history would be curious to know how a handful of his countrymen, separated from their home by an immense ocean, subjugated, in the course of a few w-ears, one of the greatest empires in the world. Yet, unless we greatly err, this subject is to most... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 466 pages
...handful of his eountrymen, separated from their home by an immense oeean, subjugated, in the eourse of a few years, one of the greatest empires in the world. Yet, unless we greatly err, this subjeet is to most readers not only insipid, but positively distasteful. Perhaps the fault lies partly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 pages
...Englishman -who takes any interest in any part of history would be curious to know how a handful of his countrymen, separated from their home by an immense ocean, subjugated, in v the course of a few years, one of the greatest empires in the world. Yet, unless we greatly err,... | |
 | Eduard Adolf Ferdinand Maetzner - 1865 - 632 pages
...Five Centuries. Tauchn. p. 279.). Most epic poets plunge in „medias res" (ВтBON, D. Juan 1, 6.). This subject is to Most readers, not only insipid but positively distasteful (MACAUL., Essays IV. 2.). 3>er abjeitittifi^e Äontparattö erf ¿Ceint int Sllte, in ben gormen more... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 pages
...Englishman who takes any interest in any part of history would be curious to know how a handful of his countrymen, separated from their home by an immense...in the course of a few years, one of the greatest f empires in the world. Yet, unless we greatly err, this subject is, to most readers, not only insipid,... | |
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