 | Roger Lundin, Anthony C. Thiselton, Clarence Walhout - 1999 - 280 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.38 In 1893 Frederick Jackson Turner wrote, It [history] is more than past literature, more than... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 2005 - 553 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 insignficant for his notice which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of... | |
 | Catherine Hall, Sonya O. Rose - 2006 - 33 ページ
...rejection and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction . . . He shows us the court, the camp, and the senate. But he shows us also the nation.15 He was very critical of most contemporary historians and his chosen points of reference were... | |
 | University of Bombay - 1915 - 500 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. Ho shows us the court, the camp, and the senate ; but he shows us also the nation. He considera 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... 
