Narratives from Macaulay (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Narratives From MacaulaySuccession. Previous historians had generally taken the part of the king in their account of the struggles between the various members of the body politic. Macaulay frankly accepted the dictum that government depends upon an implied contract between the monarch and his subjects, and once for all disposed of the Stewart doctrine that a king can do no wrong. Dealing as he did with a period in which these were the questions at issue, his history is in the main special pleading on one side of the argument. But though his method undoubtedly gives a colour to the facts of which he treats, and though later research has thrown further light on some of his statements, his nar tatiye remains on the whole the recognised standard account of the period, while his way of looking at events has in¿uenced the judgment of all later historians, as well as of the average reader.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.