The history of England is emphatically the history of progress.

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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Topic

England

Author

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Source

Sir James Mackintosh Edinburgh Review

Medium

Essay Magazine

Language

English

Time

1835 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Historian Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Sir James Mackintosh." Edinburgh Review, July 1835.

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Source
Philosophy of History
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Hegel, G. W. F. Vorlesungen über die Philosophie der Weltgeschichte [Lectures on the Philosophy of World History]. c. 1830, University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Current Citation

Hegel, G. W. F. Lectures on the Philosophy of World History, translated by H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge University Press, 1981.