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| History of England from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 01) |
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THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND FROM THE ACCESSION OF JAMES II. BY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY. CHAPTER I.I PURPOSE to write the history of England from the accession ofKing James the Second down to a time which is within the memoryof men still living. I shall recount the errors which, in a fewmonths, alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House ofStuart. I shall trace the course of that revolution whichterminated the long struggle between our sovereigns and theirparliaments, and bound up together the rights of the people andthe title of the reigning dynasty. I shall relate how the newsettlement was, during many troubled years, successfully defendedagainst foreign and domestic enemies; how, under that settlement,the authority of law and the security of property were found tobe compatible with a liberty of discussion and of individualaction never before known; how, from the auspicious union oforder and fr |
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