 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1872 - 502 ページ
...transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons...the nature of man. He shows us the court, the camp, the senate ; but he shows us also the nation. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 416 ページ
...transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons...nation. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manners, no familiar saying, as too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion,... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 416 ページ
...transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons...elucidate the condition of society, and the nature of man. Iie shows us the court, the camp, and the senate. But he shows us also the nation. He considers no... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 506 ページ
...transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according ta the degree in which they elucidate the condition of society and the nature of man. He shows us the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 498 ページ
...transactions arc prominent; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons...no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar Paying, as too insignificant for his notice which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 844 ページ
...transactions are prominent; others retire. But the 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 in whicTi they elucidate the condition of society and the nature of man. He shows us the court, the camp,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 ページ
...transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but accordmg to the degree in which they elucidate the condition of society and the nature of man. He shows... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1888 - 310 ページ
...transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons...shows us the court, the camp, and the senate. But he also shows us the nation." How well Macaulay himself illustrates his theory, in his own History of... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1888 - 300 ページ
...transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons...shows us the court, the camp, and the senate. But he also shows us the nation." How well Macaulay himself illustrates his theory, in his own History of... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1889 - 338 ページ
...transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons...the condition of society and the nature of man. He 160 shows us the court, the camp, and the senate. But he shows us also the nation. He considers no... | |
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... testimony. But by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative, a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the... 
