Critical and Historical Essays, vol 1
Critical and Historical Essays, vol 1
English History
Hallam's HistoryBurleigh and his TimesJohn HampdenMiltonSir William TempleSir James MackintoshHorace WalpoleWilliam PittThe Earl of ChathamCliveWarren HastingsLord Holland
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public that insisted on their re-issue, and few would be bold enough to deny that the public was right."
It is to Mr. Morison that the plan followed in the present edition of the Essays is due. In his monograph on Macaulay (English Men of Letters series) he devotes a chapter to the Essays and "with the object of giving as much unity as possible to a subject necessarily wanting it," classifies the Essays into four groups, (1)English history, (2)Foreign history, (3)Controversial, (4)Critical and Miscellaneous. The articles in the first group are equal in bulk to those of the three other groups put together, and are contained in the first volume of this issue. They form a fairly complete survey of English history from the time of Elizabeth to the later years of the reign of George III, and are fitly introduced by the Essay on Hallam's History, which forms a kind of summary or microcosm of the whole period.
The scheme might be made still more complete by including certain articles (and especially t
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