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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index by Thomas Babington Macaulay explores english literature — history and criticism, great britain — history..
Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index is a work by Thomas Babington Macaulay. Its subjects include English literature — History and criticism, Great Britain — History..
From the opening pages: “More {1}than ten years ago we commenced a sketch of the political life of the great Lord Chatham. We then stopped at the death of George the Second, with the intention of speedily resuming our task. Circumstances, which it would be tedious to explain, long prevented us from carrying this intention into effect. Nor can we regret the delay. For the materials which were within our reach in 1834 were scanty and unsatisfactory, when compared with those which we at present possess. Even now, though we have had access to some valuable sources of information which have not yet been opened to the public, we cannot but feel that the history of the first ten years of the reign of George the Third is but imperfectly known to us. Nevertheless, we are inclined to think that we are in a condition to lay before our readers a narrative neither uninstructive nor uninteresting. We therefore return with pleasure to our long interrupted labour.”
