On 25 February 1757, Burke signed a contract with Robert Dodsley to write a "history of England from the time of Julius Caesar to the end of the reign of Queen Anne", its length being eighty quarto sheets (640 pages), nearly 400,000 words. It was to be submitted for publication by Christmas 1758. Burke completed the work to the year 1216 and stopped; it was not published until after Burke's death, being included in an 1812 collection of his works, entitled An Essay Towards an Abridgement of the English History. G. M. Young did not value Burke's history and claimed that it was "demonstrably a translation from the French". Lord Acton, on commenting on the story that Burke stopped his history because David Hume published his, said "it is ever to be regretted that the reverse did not occur". COUNT 5
QSN1 When did Burke sign a contract for a history of England? ANS1 25 February 1757 QSN2 How many words long was Burke's history of England contracted to be? ANS2 nearly 400,000 QSN3 How many pages long was Burke's history of England contracted to be? ANS3 640 pages QSN4 When was Burke's history of England published? ANS4 1812 QSN5 Which author's history of England being published before Burke's might have dissuaded Burke from continuing his? ANS5 David Hume