 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,...  The National Review - Стр. 375редактор(ы): - 1856Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | John Franklin Genung - 1889 - Страниц: 338
...sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. 9. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He 150 relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1889 - Страниц: 326
...sights, arid from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. 9. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniatured He 150 relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - Страниц: 462
...at his command. He delineates any trait ; he can paint and justly paint any manners he chooses. "The perfect historian," he tells us, "is he in whose work...by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, ho gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination... | |
 | William Minto - 1892 - Страниц: 584
..."intersperse the details which are the cliarm of historical romances." "The perfect historian is lie in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature." "We should nut have to look for the wars and votes of the Puritans in Clarendon, and for their phraseology... | |
 | 1893 - Страниц: 786
...danger. — JR Green. But to tax and to please is not common among men. — Burke. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. — Macaulay. The birds their songs renew and bleating herds Attest their joy, that hill and valley... | |
 | Ernest Hampden-Cook - 1895 - Страниц: 224
...Macaulay* has naively remarked, " By judicious selection, rejection and arrangement [a perfect historian] gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction . . . In [a perfect historian's] narrative a due subordination is observed — some transactions are prominent,... | |
 | John Duncan Quackenbos - 1896 - Страниц: 492
...he in whose work the character and spirit of an age are exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. He shows us the court, the camp, the senate. He shows us also the nation. He considers no anecdote,... | |
 | George Eugène Fasnacht - 1897 - Страниц: 216
...First Course, § 76. 11. to come, etc., s'introduire. 14. The Perfect Historian. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an...is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, 2. to be exhibited, se re'fle'ehir (refle'terl 4. is, Subjunct. , cf. § 105 (J). oil se montre une... | |
 | Northwest Territories Council of Public Instruction - 1897 - Страниц: 628
...perfect historian is he in whose work the character End spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. (2) He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated Insufficient testimony. (3) Hut by judicious selection, rejection and arrangement he gives to truth... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - Страниц: 236
...having held formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work I the character and spirit of an age is exhibited '...relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his character, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But by judicious selection, rejection,... | |
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