Lecky

Then there was 'Lecky's History of European Morals'; there were periods when they read Lecky avidly and discussed it in original and unorthodox ways.

Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Then there was 'Lecky's History of European Morals'; there were periods when they read Lecky avidly and discussed it in original and unorthodox ways.

Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume I, Part 2: 1835-1866 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Lecky, Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man, several of Carlyle, and eight or ten of Zola.

CHAPTER XIV 2010

It's hard work and don't think for one second Scalzi or Lecky or any other writer didn't have to go through that.

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As the doors creaked open, Dr. Blinkman involuntarily shrank back from the pitch-black interior, but Lecky, more self-possessed or perhaps less imaginative, stepped into the inky chamber and felt along the wall until he found the electric light button.

"The Moon Woman" by Minna Irving, part 1 Johnny Pez 2010

As the doors creaked open, Dr. Blinkman involuntarily shrank back from the pitch-black interior, but Lecky, more self-possessed or perhaps less imaginative, stepped into the inky chamber and felt along the wall until he found the electric light button.

Archive 2010-04-01 Johnny Pez 2010

Macaulay, Tocqueville, Lord Acton, and Lecky certainly considered themselves liberals, and with justice; and even Edmund Burke remained an Old Whig to the end and would have shuddered at the thought of being regarded as aTory.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Ayn Rand Bad for Libertarianism? 2009

I wish I understood the mechanism better. eBay item 5527273221 (Ends 23-Oct-04 12: 12: 44 BST) - 2 invitations to a wedding I don't want to go to (via Lecky)

October 2004 2004

I wish I understood the mechanism better. eBay item 5527273221 (Ends 23-Oct-04 12: 12: 44 BST) - 2 invitations to a wedding I don't want to go to (via Lecky)

why do these things spread? 2004

Mark Twain found an echo of his own philosophies in Lecky.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003