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For an account of the causes leading to revolution written from an essentially English standpoint, see Lecky's History of England in the Eighteenth Century, Vol. Articles of Confederation. Best upon this subject are: Curtis' History of the Constitution; Marshall's Life of Washington; Bancroft's History of the United States; and Winsor's Narrative and Critical History of America, Vol.
But it is the latter who best in Ireland can trace kinship with the founders of the United States, and who are entitled if any Irishmen are to base on that kinship a claim to the sympathy and support of the American people. Ibid., p. 88 Ibid. Annual Register, 1918, p. 90. See Lecky's History of England in the Eighteenth Century, vol. iv, p. 430.
"Lecky's 'History of Morals," said John. "How dreadful! do you really mean to read it?" "Certainly; we are all reading it." "Who all?" "Why, Gracie, and Letitia and Rose Ferguson." "Rose Ferguson? I don't believe it. Why, Rose isn't twenty yet! She cannot care about such stuff." "She does care, and enjoys it too," said John, eagerly.
Mr. Lecky's essay would seem to have originated more in a desire to try his hand at theorizing than in any necessity to ventilate some previous drifts from the beginning to the end of his book.
"Well, then again, John, there's our old study-club. The Fergusons and Mr. Mathews were talking it over the other night, and wondering when you would be ready to join us. We were going to take up Lecky's 'History of Morals, and have our sessions Tuesday evenings, one Tuesday at their house, and the other at mine, you know."
If I were asked my very ideal of how history should be written, I think I should point to those two rows on yonder shelf, the one M'Carthy's "History of Our Own Times," the other Lecky's "History of England in the Eighteenth Century."
If we may reckon the previous preparation and the ceaseless revision, Stubbs devoted a good part of his life to the constitutional history from the beginnings of it to Henry VII. Lecky's eight volumes on the eighteenth century were published in thirteen years. A mastery of such an amount of original material as Stubbs and Gardiner mastered was impossible within that time.
For the social side, see Traill, V. Lecky's History of the Eighteenth Century is specially full. The Cambridge History of English Literature. Courthope's History of English Poetry, Vol. Seccombe's The Age of Johnson. Gosse's History of English Literature in the Eighteenth Century. Stephen's English Literature in the Eighteenth Century. Minto's Manual of English Prose Literature.
Lecky's research on this subject are varied and interesting, and we cordially commend his volumes to the reader as an inviting storehouse of materials for reflection; but we very much doubt whether the school of thought he represents has, on the whole, mastered the problem of civilization any more thoroughly than its rival.
I mean, there's surely more chance of understanding the people of the eighteenth century if you read Fielding's 'Tom Jones' than there is if you read Lecky's 'England in the Eighteenth Century." "Is there?" said Rachel. "Of course, there is," Gilbert hurled at her from the other side of the table.
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