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Language: English . Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.Excerpt from Critical Historical Essays, Vol. 1 The essay on William Pitt is in form and substance one of the best of Macaulay s Essays. Macaulay s amazing gusto for Parliamentary history and his power of vigorous, although overcharged portraiture are nowhere better exemplified. Macaulay was far more conversant with the details, far more sympathetic to the spirit of the eighteenth than of the seventeenth century. Among the English statesmen of the eighteenth century none afforded a theme more suitable to Macaulay s bold and brilliant rhetoric than William Pitt. With all his waywardness and affectation in little things, in great things Pitt was a simple and majestic character, sincere, brave, impetuous, a contemner of sordid gains, greedy only of power which he employed to exalt his country, and of the applause with which she repaid his services. Other public men have been more steadily wise and constantly successful; but Pitt s first famous administration is still the most glorious in two hundred years of Parliamentary government. The essay is not indeed faultless either as biography or as history. The accomplished author of Britain and Her Rivals somewhat unkindly taxes Macaulay with an instinctive preference for commonplace men and commonplace movements which rendered him unsympathetic with irregular genius like that of Pitt. He betrays a perpetual distrust; his admiration has the air of being extorted; his censure has in it a note of satisfaction. He is more deeply impressed by Pitt s failure as a Parliamentary politician than by his success as a temporary dictator. We may allow some weight to this censure and more to the observation that Macaulay, whilst dilating upon every Parliamentary incident which preceded the outbreak of the Seven Years War, scarcely helps the reader to understand how much was then at stake for England; nothing less than the dominion of North America and of India. Since the commencement of the reign of George II. both branches of the House of Bourbon had drawn together with the view of asserting their colonial and commercial interests against those of England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Critical Historical Essays, Vol. 1 The essay on William Pitt is in form and substance one of the best of Macaulay's Essays. Macaulay's amazing gusto for Parliamentary history and his power of vigorous, although overcharged portraiture are nowhere better exemplified. Macaulay was far more conversant with the details, far more sympathetic to the spirit of the eighteenth than of the seventeenth century. Among the English statesmen of the eighteenth century none afforded a theme more suitable to Macaulay's bold and brilliant rhetoric than William Pitt. With all his waywardness and affectation in little things, in great things Pitt was a simple and majestic character, sincere, brave, impetuous, a contemner of sordid gains, greedy only of power which he employed to exalt his country, and of the applause with which she repaid his services. Other public men have been more steadily wise and constantly successful; but Pitt's first famous administration is still the most glorious in two hundred years of Parliamentary government. The essay is not indeed faultless either as biography or as history. The accomplished author of Britain and Her Rivals somewhat unkindly taxes Macaulay with an instinctive preference for commonplace men and commonplace movements which rendered him unsympathetic with irregular genius like that of Pitt. "He betrays a perpetual distrust; his admiration has the air of being extorted; his censure has in it a note of satisfaction." He is more deeply impressed by Pitt's failure as a Parliamentary politician than by his success as a temporary dictator. We may allow some weight to this censure and more to the observation that Macaulay, whilst dilating upon every Parliamentary incident which preceded the outbreak of the Seven Years' War, scarcely helps the reader to understand how much was then at stake for England; nothing less than the dominion of North America and of India. Since the commencement of the reign of George II. both branches of the House of Bourbon had drawn together with the view of asserting their colonial and commercial interests against those of England. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Paperback, Label: Forgotten Books, Forgotten Books, Product group: Book, Published: 2015-09-27, Studio: Forgotten Books.

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