The Quarterly Review, Vol. 165: July and October, 1887 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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No such criticism can be fairly applied to the volumes before us. Indeed, Mr. Lecky might almost seem to have rebutted it by anticipation. In dignified and felicitous terms he protests against the spirit and language of Fatalism in historical study, and claims for the investigation of personal qualities and actions some measure of that close attention which of late has been too exclusively bestowed on chance combinations of circumstance and tendency. The older and better theory of historical method which he thus pro unds is applied at the very outset of these latest volumes. E opens the eighteenth chapter of his history with a careful and life-like portrait of Mr. Pitt, and gives a most judicious estimate of his political standing as compared with the most illustrious of his predecessors and successors. There could be no more suitable or more impressive introduction to a narrative which, beginning at 1784, describes the internal condition and exterior relations of England during the closing years of the last century. For at every turn Mr. Pitt's stately presence is visible; everywhere his master-hand reaches; amid the Babe] of factions, it is his commanding el uence for which we instinctively listen.
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No such criticism can be fairly applied to the volumes before us. Indeed, Mr. Lecky might almost seem to have rebutted it by anticipation. In dignified and felicitous terms he protests against the spirit and language of Fatalism in historical study, and claims for the investigation of personal qualities and actions some measure of that close attention which of late has been too exclusively bestowed on chance combinations of circumstance and tendency. The older and better theory of historical method which he thus pro unds is applied at the very outset of these latest volumes. E opens the eighteenth chapter of his history with a careful and life-like portrait of Mr. Pitt, and gives a most judicious estimate of his political standing as compared with the most illustrious of his predecessors and successors. There could be no more suitable or more impressive introduction to a narrative which, beginning at 1784, describes the internal condition and exterior relations of England during the closing years of the last century. For at every turn Mr. Pitt's stately presence is visible; everywhere his master-hand reaches; amid the Babe] of factions, it is his commanding el uence for which we instinctively listen.
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