 | 1856 - 542 ページ
...their "gleanings works, which, even consider"ed as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great his"torian would reclaim those materials "which the novelist has appropriated. " The government and the history of the "people would be exhibited in that mode "in which alone they can... | |
 | 1849 - 820 ページ
...their gleanings, works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials...conjunction and intermixture. We should not then have u> look for the wars and votes of the Puritans in Clarendon, and for their phraseology in Old Mortality,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 516 ページ
...are at his command. He delineates any trait; he can paint, and justly paint, any manners he chooses. a truly great historian would reclaim those materials...the government, and the history of the people, would he exhibited in that mode in which alone they can be exhibited justly, in inseparable conjunction and... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1857 - 686 ページ
...which histotians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which mny well excite their envy. A truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated ; society should be shown from the highest to the lowest. Instruction derived from history thus written... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 ページ
...their's. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropri-. ated. The history of the government, and the history of...inseparable conjunction and intermixture. We should nut then have to look for the wars and votes of the Puritans in Clarendon, and for their phraseology... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1922 - 784 ページ
...Walter Scott has used those fragmenta of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated.' Now, if you will look to see what Hume, Robertson, and Gibbon lack, you will see at once how very large... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1850 - 628 ページ
...which historians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which may well excite their envy. A truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated ; society should be shown from the highest to the lowest. Instruction derived from history thus written... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1872 - 502 ページ
...their gleanings works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials...the people, would be exhibited in that mode in which a'one they can be exhibited justly, in inseparable conjunction and intermixture. We should not then... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 ページ
...which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. LORD MACAULAY : History. A truly great historian would reclaim those materials...novelist has appropriated. The history of the government, ami the history of the people, would be exhibited in that mode in which alone they can l« exhibited... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 498 ページ
...their gleanings works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials...in that mode in which alone they can be exhibited justly—in inseparable conjunction and intermixture. We should not then have to look for the wars... | |
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Walter Scott, in the same manner, has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which may well excite their envy. He has constructed out of their gleanings works which, even considered as histories,... 
