 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
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1899 - Страниц: 392
...travel. The student, like the tourist, is transported into a new state of society. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. By judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement he gives to truth those attractions which have been... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1902 - Страниц: 500
...they have been developed in the Nineteenth Century. Macaulay wrote in 1828 : " The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an...those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. ... A truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated. The... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - Страниц: 210
...and it would not be easy to name their equal. (JC Morrison.) Use of Detail.—The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant to illustrate... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - Страниц: 476
...spoken in any quarter of the globe. THE PERFECT HISTORIAN (Essay on History) THE perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no facts, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony.... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1905 - Страниц: 362
...however, be periodic to a considerable degree, as in the following from Macaulay. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. The sentence is loose, for the sense might be completed and a period placed after " exhibited," but... | |
 | William Henry Sheran - 1905 - Страниц: 602
...one 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 ; the true historian shows us the court, the camp, the senate. He shows us also the nation. He considers... | |
 | Edward Fulton - 1906 - Страниц: 286
...the effectiveness of the following admirably unified paragraph from Macaulay: The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an...selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to the truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1907 - Страниц: 306
...description he finally proved himself almost the embodiment. He writes : ' " The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an...those attractions which have been usurped by fiction ." Macaulay's avowed liking for scholastic education and delightful recollections even of school life,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1909 - Страниц: 328
...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...miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to^his^char1 Essay on ' History.' All the other quotations on the page are from the same source. acters,... | |
 | Edward Fulton - 1911 - Страниц: 336
...following paragraph, for example, how carefully the writer keeps to his topic : The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an...selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to the truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination... | |
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