Little Masterpieces (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Little Masterpieces This volume of selections from the writings of Macaulay begins with that portion of his essay on History which deals with the functions of the modern historian. It was written at the age oi twenty-eight, and an. Nounced a program to which the author steadily conformed throughout his literary career. Three years before, Macaulay's essay on Milton had given him sudden fame, and the passage devoted to the Puritans, reprinted here, is a well-known example of the brilliant though somewhat over-accented style which was one of the causes of his immediate success with the public. The pictorial method of writing history has never been more perfectly displayed than in the sketch of the trial of Warren Hastings. For fifty years it has been reprinted in read ing-books to use literally one of Macaulay's favorite and threadbare phrases, every schoolboy knows it, and yet it cannot be read without a thrill of enjoyment in the fa miliar scene, or without admiration for the author's workmanship. 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.