This is a biography of Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre (popularly known as Robespierre, b. 1758; d. 1794) which details his role as a major figure in the French Revolution, particularly the period known as The Reign of Terror. Its author, John Morley, was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor.

Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) was a British historian and Whig politician, best known for his essays and political writings, which are "famous for their ringing prose and for their confident, sometimes dogmatic, emphasis on a progressive model of British history." [source: Wikipedia] This is a short biography and critical review of Macaulay's historical and political works. Author John Morley was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper...

Vauvenargues (born Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues, b. 1715-d. 1747) was a French writer and moralist. He died at age 31, having published the year prior—anonymously—a collection of essays and aphorisms with the encouragement of his friend Voltaire. He first received public notice under his own name in 1797. His aphorisms became popular a half-century later. In the history of French literature, his significance lies chiefly in his friendship...

Born Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-1781) but commonly known simply as Turgot, the subject of this book was an 18th-century French economist and statesman. He is today best remembered as an early advocate for economic liberalism, and is thought to have been the first economist to have recognized the law of diminishing marginal returns in agriculture.[source: Wikipedia] This short treatise briefly describes his life and provides a critique of his...

Joseph Marie, Comte de Maistre (1753-1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat who advocated social hierarchy and monarchy in the period immediately following the French Revolution. A prominent figure of the Counter-Enlightenment, Maistre regarded monarchy both as a divinely sanctioned institution and as the only stable form of government. He called for the restoration of the House of Bourbon to the throne of France and for the...

Mark Pattison (1813–1884) was an English author and priest in the Church of England. He served as Rector of Lincoln College, Oxford. The author of this treatise on his life and thinking is John Morley, a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor.

This is a brief treatise on the life and accomplishments of Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), an English social theorist often seen as the first female sociologist. She wrote from a sociological, holistic, religious and feminine perspective, translated works by Auguste Comte, was dedicated to the abolition movement and--rarely for a woman writer at the time--earned enough from her writing to support herself.[source: Wikipedia] Author John Morley was...

This is a brief treatise on the history of Great Britain, primarily through colonial expansion during the 18th and 19th centuries, as written about by several 19th-century British historians. Author John Morley was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor.

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, OM, PC, FRS, FBA (24 December 1838 – 23 September 1923), was a British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor. Morley devoted a considerable amount of time to literature, his anti-Imperial views being practically swamped by the overwhelming predominance of Unionism and Imperialism. His position as a leading British writer had early been determined by his monographs on Voltaire (1872), Rousseau...

A biography, and treastise on the work, Edmund Burke, an Irish statesman and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party after moving to London in 1750.

Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state. These

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