...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...

...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...

...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...

...what manner of thing he has got to work on and live on." Macaulay declares that 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 sayings as too insignificant for his notice,...

...history interesting and impressing. It is as illustration to a heavy discourse. "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 for his notice,...

...from Macaulay's 1828 programmatic remarks on history in the Edinburgh Review: The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an...is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But byjudicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been...

...to his characters [sic], which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony"; but on the other hand "by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement...those attractions which have been usurped by fiction." These were all variations on the classical themes of the old ars histórica. Macaulay lived, acted,...

...plausible reconstruction of a specific moment. Like that of Macaulay's 'perfect historian, in Hunt's work 'the character and spirit of an age is exhibited...characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony.'63 Although appreciative of Hunt's efforts, William Dyce felt that The Finding of the Saviour...

...the 'noiseless revolutions' that transformed a social world. 'The perfect historian', he concluded, is he in whose work the character and spirit of an...relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his character, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection...