 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 210 ページ
...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 to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of education, and to mark the progress of the... | |
 | Edward Fulton - 1906 - 286 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 pf man. He shows us the court, the camp, and the senate. But he shows us also the nation. He considers... | |
 | 1906 - 956 ページ
...all remember Macaulay's picture of the perfect historian, who besides showing us the camp, the court, "shows us also the nation": — He "considers no anecdote,...of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, of education, and to mark the progress of the human... | |
 | Henry Noel Shore (5th baron Teignmouth.) - 1896 - 216 ページ
...intellectual muzziness of the past?" " The perfect historian," says a professor of the craft, " is he who considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no...familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice." Let us remember, moreover, that, to quote the words of a famous philosopher, " All that we do, all... | |
 | 1907 - 1038 ページ
...but of utter hardship and destitution. Macaulay, writing of the task of the modern historian, says: "He shows us the court, the camp, and the senate. But he also shows us the nation. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying as... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1916 - 824 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. — Essay on History \ •••—. -•••:.i lT'V'.V: •' THOMAS B. MACAULAY UCCESS is in the... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 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...peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too significant for his notice which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion,... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 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...peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too significant for his notice which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion,... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1928 - 392 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. — Essay on History THOMAS B. MACAULAY UCCESS is in the blood, f There are men whom Fate can never... | |
 | James Chandler - 1999 - 616 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. . . .The changes in manners will be indicated, not merely by a few general phrases, or a few extracts... | |
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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... 
