CRITICAL, HISTORICAL, AND MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS
By Lord Macaulay
With A Memoir And Index
In Six Volumes
Volume IV
New York: Published by Sheldon and Company
1860
THE SIX VOLUMES
| VOLUME I. |
| VOLUME II. |
| VOLUME III. |
| VOLUME IV. |
| VOLUME V. |
| VOLUME VI. |
CONTENTS
ESSAYS
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE.
GLADSTONE ON CHURCH AND STATE.
LORD CLIVE.
VON RANKE.
LEIGH HUNT.
LORD HOLLAND.
ESSAYS
SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE. (1)
(Edinburgh Review, October, 1838.)
Mr. Courtenay 1has long been well known to politicians as an industrious and useful official man, and as an upright and consistent member of Parliament. He has been one of the most moderate, and, at the same time, one of the least pliant members of the Conservative party. His conduct has, indeed, on some questions, been so Whiggish, that both those who applauded and those who condemned it have questioned his claim to be considered as a Tory. But his Toryism, such as it is, he has held fast through all changes of fortune and fashion; and he has at last retired from public life, leaving behind him, to the best of our belief, no personal enemy, and carrying with him the respect and good will of many who strongly dissent from his opinion