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less to have made political morality their rule of conduct. 

 Of the Nonjurors Mr. Macaulay speaks and judges very 

 unfavourably; of the Scotch still more harshly; and of 

 the Church in a manner which will pain many, in despite 

 of his avowal that " it is an indisputable and a most in- 

 structive fact, that we are in a great measure indebted 

 for the civil and religious liberty which we enjoy to the 

 pertinacity with which the High Church party, in the 

 Convocation of 1689, refused even to deliberate on any 

 plan of Comprehension." Scattered over the sixteen 

 liundred pages to which the volumes extend, are innu- 

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 the attention of our readers. As, for instance, the account 

 of the Battle of the Boyne, which Mr. Macaulay, by his 

 powers of description, has almost elevated into the dignity 

 of a great encounter, while in sober truth it was little 

 more than a bold stroke on the one side, and a panic on 

 the other. His portrait of Marlborough, again, is another 

 capital study, in which, with Rembrandt -like power, all 

 the bright qualities of Marlborough's genius are height- 

 ened by contrast with the blacker shades of his moral 

 character. We should have been glad to have pointed 

 out how clearly Mr. Macaulay illustrates the origin of our 

 National Debt, and the beneficial results of it — how the 

 Bank of England came to be established— how he de- 

 scribes the causes which led to that liberty of the Press 

 which we now enjoy — how graphically he relates the 

 early history of newspapers — and how vividly he has 

 painted the last daj's of those haunts of infamy. White- 

 friars and the Savoy — but we profess to make "Notes 

 on Books," not to review them ; so we will bring this Note 

 to a close, with the avowal of our belief that the publica- 

 tion will enhance even Mr. Macaulay's high reputation, 

 and the expression of our thanks to him for the light 

 which he has thrown over the most important period in 

 the History of our Constitution. 



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 in short, given the philosophers a nut to crack this 

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