 | 1828 - 608 ページ
...formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He...subordination is observed ; some transactions are nrominent, others retire. Hut the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not... | |
 | 1849 - 782 ページ
...description of what history should be. " The perfect historian ia he, in whose work, the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He...fiction. In his narrative, a due subordination is preserved : some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale, on which he represents them,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 ページ
...formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He...scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 ページ
...formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character * 8 * diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree... | |
 | 1849 - 820 ページ
...description of what history should be. " The perfect historian is he, in whose work, the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He...not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicioue selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions, which have been... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 ページ
...formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work %e character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He...scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not accoiding to the dignity of the persons concerned In them, but according to the degree... | |
 | 1852 - 780 ページ
...formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character her community B ' the scale on which he represents them is i creased or diminished, not according to tl • dignity... | |
 | 1856 - 754 ページ
...Again. " The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited » miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression...characters which is not authenticated by sufficient ttth' many" " If a man, such as we are supposing, should write the history of England, * * he would... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 520 ページ
...paint, any manners he chooses. " A perfect historian," he tells us, " is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He...scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 516 ページ
...guest at " ten thousand fire" A perfect historian," he tells us, " is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He...by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed—some transactions are prominent, others retire; but the scale on which he represents them... | |
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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,... 
