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
| Charles Alphonso Smith - 1913 - Страниц: 244
...two successive paragraphs from each of our chosen essayists : FROM MACAULAY* "The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an...which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. *Essay on History. But by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - Страниц: 284
...is for us to express love in terms of human helpfulness. — David Starr Jordan. perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an...which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony «» By judicious selection, rejection and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - Страниц: 252
...is for us to express love in terms of human helpfulness. — David Starr Jordan. perfect historian is he 'in whose work the character and spirit of an...relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters.which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony »» By judicious selection, rejection... | |
| Charles Alphonso Smith - 1924 - Страниц: 238
...two successive paragraphs from each of our chosen essayists: FROM MACAULAY 1 The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates 1 Essay on History. no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which is not authenticated... | |
| William Henry Crawshaw - 1924 - Страниц: 606
...brilliant practice, he wrote history as it had never been written before. He says, "The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature." It was this that he aimed at and in large measure attained. As mere history, it is open to the charge... | |
| 1926 - Страниц: 346
...while he "relates no fact . . . which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony," at the same time, "by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement,...those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. . . . Men will not merely be described, but will be made intimately known to us. The changes of manners... | |
| George Coes Howell - 1928 - Страниц: 266
...he in whose work the character and spirit of the age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no facts, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. Men will not merely be described but will be made intimately known to us. — MACAULEY. AS a means... | |
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