Excerpt from Lectures on the History of France

I trust, also, that I have been regardless of Mr. Macaulay's admonition in appearance rather than in reality. Such rapidity of execution would, indeed, be altogether absurd, if, in giving this volume to the world, I were a candidate for a place in that small and illustrious company of historical writers to which he and Mr. Hallam belong. But to disclaim any such pretension would not be so much superfluous as it would be ludicrous.

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