I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.


Vol. I, ch. 1. - History of England (1849–1861)

Thomas Babington Macaulay Quotes

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the...

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the...

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the...

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the...