 | 1828 - 608 Seiten
...few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes...subordination is observed ; some transactions are nrominent, others retire. Hut the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not... | |
 | 1849 - 782 Seiten
...history should be. " The perfect historian ia he, in whose work, the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes...fiction. In his narrative, a due subordination is preserved : some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale, on which he represents them,... | |
 | 1849 - 820 Seiten
...history should be. " The perfect historian is he, in whose work, the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes...not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicioue selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions, which have been... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 Seiten
...few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work %e character and spirit of an age is is classical diction comparable to that of Milton. accoiding to the dignity of the persons concerned In them, but according to the degree in which they... | |
 | 1852 - 780 Seiten
...few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is w m U B ' the scale on which he represents them is i creased or diminished, not according to tl • dignity... | |
 | 1856 - 754 Seiten
...Again. " The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited » miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression...characters which is not authenticated by sufficient ttth' many" " If a man, such as we are supposing, should write the history of England, * * he would... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 770 Seiten
...few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes...he represents them is increased or diminished, not accoiding to the dignity of the persons concerned m them, but according to the degree in which they... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 516 Seiten
...fire" A perfect historian," he tells us, " is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes...by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed—some transactions are prominent, others retire; but the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1857 - 686 Seiten
...work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature; by judicious selections, rejections and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions, which have been usurped by fiction. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiarity of saying, as too insignificant... | |
 | 1858 - 572 Seiten
...Essay on History, " The perfect historian is he in whose wurk the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes...; some transactions are prominent, others retire. • THE RISB OF THE DCTCH REPUBLIC, A History. By JOHN LOTHIIOP MOTLEY. In three Volumes. New York... | |
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The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But by judicious selection,... 
