...my expectations of the success of this work. I thought that I was the only historian who had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority,...was my disappointment : I was assailed by one cry ol reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation ; English, Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, churchman...

...His first volume was no success, however, in his own estimation. " I was assailed," he tells us,2 " by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation...Whig and Tory, Churchman and Sectary, Freethinker and Eeligionist, Patriot and Courtier, united in their rage against the man who had presumed to shed a...

...fate The first Vulume of his History (James I. and Charles I.) was published in 1754, and the Author was " assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation,...Scotch, and Irish, Whig and Tory, Churchman and Sectary, Free" thinker and Religionist, Patriot and Courtier, united in their rage against the Au" thor, . ....

...expectations of the success of this work. I thought that I was the only historian, that had at once neglected present power, interest, and authority,...every capacity, I expected proportional applause. But-miserable waamy__diaaitpointment: I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even...

...in 1754. To his great chagrin this famous work failed to please any class of readers. He tells us: "I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation. ... I scarcely heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could...

...in 1754. To his great chagrin this famous work failed to please any class of readers. He tells us : "I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation. ... I scarcely heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could...

...i_7jj4. To his great chagrin this famous work failed to please any class of readers. He tells us : "I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation. ... I scarcely heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could...

...in 1754. To his great chagrin this famous work failed to please any class of readers. He tells us : "I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation. ... I scarcely heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could...

...in 1754. To his great chagrin this famous work failed to please any class of readers. He tells us : "I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation, and even detestation. ... I scarcely heard of one man in the three kingdoms, considerable for rank or letters, that could...

...attained it. But he liked applause as well as fame, and, to his bitter disappointment, he says :— " I was assailed by one cry of reproach, disapprobation,...Patriot and Courtier, united in their rage against the mnn who had presumed to shed a generous tear for the fate of Charles I. and the Earl of Strafford ;...