CRITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS

By Lord Macaulay

With A Memoir And Index

In Six Volumes. Vol. III

New York: Published By Sheldon And Company

1860

THE SIX VOLUMES

CONTENTS

BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES.

MIRABEAU.

WAR OF THE SUCCESSION IN SPAIN.

HORACE WALPOLE.

WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH.

LORD BACON.

INDEX

BURLEIGH AND HIS TIMES. (1)

(Edinburgh Review, April, 1832.)

The 1work of Dr. Nares has filled us with astonishment similar to that which Captain Lemuel Gulliver felt when he first landed in Brobdingnag, and saw corn as high as the oaks in the New Forest, thimbles as large as buckets, and wrens of the bulk of turkeys. The whole book, and every component part of it, is on a gigantic scale. The title is as long as an ordinary preface: the prefatory matter would furnish out an ordinary book; and the book contains as much reading as an ordinary library. We cannot sum up the merits of the stupendous mass of paper which lies before us better than by saying that it consists of about two thousand closely printed quarto pages, that it occupies fifteen hundred inches cubic measure, and

     (1) Memoirs of The Life and Administration of the Right     Honourable William Cecil Lord Burghle                        
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