Lecky has not chosen to deal with events in chronological order, nor does he present the details of personal, party, or military affaire. The work is rather an attempt 'to disengage from the great mass of facts those which relate to the permanent forces... Essays on Ireland - الصفحة 263بواسطة William J. O'Neill Daunt - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 313عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...personal and party incidents which form so large a part of political annals. It has been my object to disengage from the great mass of facts those which...some of the more enduring features of national life. The growth or decline of the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the democracy, of the Church and of Dissent,... | |
| 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 684
...a method of its own. The author does not describe the period in order of events, but has disengaged from the great mass of facts those which relate to...permanent forces of the nation, or which indicate the enduring feamres of national life, such as the growth or decline of the monarchy, aristocracy,... | |
| 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...personal and party incidents which form so large a part of political annals. It has been his object to disengage from the great mass of facts those which...some of the more enduring features of national life. The subjects on which he has especially dilated are : the growth or decline of the Monarchy, the Aristocracy,... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...himself to give a broad general view, rather than a detailed account ; thinking it more important ' to disengage from the great mass of facts those which...permanent forces of the nation, or which indicate the more enduring features of national life ; the growth or decline of the monarchy, the aristocracy... | |
| Edward Beecher - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...history; and, instead of giving a dry narrative of events year by year, it has been Mr. Lecky's object " to disengage from the great mass of facts those which...some of the more enduring features of national life, and to present the growth or decline of monarchy, the aristocracy, and the democracy, of the Church... | |
| Sir Theodore Martin - 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...history; and, instead of giving a dry narrative of events yeaj by year, it has been Mr. Lecky's object " to disengage from the great mass of facts those which...some of the more enduring features of national life, and to present the growth or decline of monarchy, the aristocracy, and the democracy, of the Church... | |
| 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...personal and party incidents which form so large a part of political annals. It has been my object to disengage from the great mass of facts those which...some of the more enduring features of national life. The growth or decline of the monarchy, the aristocracy, and the democracy, of the Church and of Dissent,... | |
| 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 656
...history; and, instead of giving » dry narrative of events year by year, it has been Mr. Lecky's object " to disengage from the great mass of facts those which...some of the more enduring features of national life, and to present the growth or decline of monarchy, the aristocracy, and the democracy, of the Church... | |
| 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 794
...however unconsciously, described the leading characteristics of his own work. Impartiality, in an attempt to " disengage from the great mass of facts those...some of the more enduring features of national life," is at once more unusual and more impflrtant than in almost any other method of historic inquiry. Personal... | |
| 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 860
...History of the greater part of the period which he has chosen. It has been his object, he tells us, " to disengage from the great mass of facts those which...some of the more enduring features of national life." It is now too late in the day to do more than refer to the warm appreciation of his book which has... | |
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