The lives of the British historians.
Publisher: C, Scribner
Published: 1855
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Historians -- Great Britain
Table of contents: title: Contents.; title: v. I. The early historians. Sir Walter Raleigh. William Camden. Edward Hyde, earl of Clarendon. Gilbert Burnet, bishop of Salisbury. Thomas Fuller. Lawrence Echard. Robert Brady. John Olomixon. Thomas Carte. William Robertson. George lord Lyttelton. Tobias Smollett. -v. s. David Hume. Rapin de Thoyras. Cahterine Macaulay. James Ralph. James Macpherson. Nathaniel Hooke. Adam Ferguson. Edward Gibbon. Robert Orme. Oliver Goldsmith. Charles James Fox. Fragmentary historians.