Selections From the Writings of Lord Macaulay

xi MISCELLANEOUS MANNERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. - TIZAVELLING IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 382 THE TOWNS OF ENGLAND IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES II. [...] 388 CIVILISATION AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE MASS OF THE PEOPLE 399 THE HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND 404 STATE OF THE CURRENCY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY 414 JEREMY COLLIER AND THE ENGLISH STAGE 420 THE COURT LIFE OF MISS BURNEY THE DUTY OF THE STATE WITH REGARD TO EDUCATION 440 POETRY. [...] From the rising ground on the north of the field of battle he saw the flash and the smoke of the last volley fired by his deserted followers. [...] But to see him witnessed the peAccution of the Catholics at the time of the Popish Plot and the pertecution of the Whigs tilt followed upon the Rye House Plot. [...] the captains of armies the leaders of parties the oracles of 'senates and the ornaments of courts.