 | University of Oxford - 1879 - 414 ページ
...French. 1. 1. Translate into French : — (1) 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 - 1880 - 462 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 - 1880 - 844 ページ
...formal conferences with a few great officer*. 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 - 1880 - 460 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 - 1880 - 640 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 ページ
...which lies deep below. LORD MACAULAY : History. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character , observation, and attention. LORD CHESTERFIELD: diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 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 accordmg to the degree... | |
 | Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 310 ページ
...few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age are exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes...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... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - 1884 - 1152 ページ
...the convivial table and the domestic hearth. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He...; some transactions are prominent, others retire. If a man, such as we are supposing, should write the history of England, he would assuredly not omit... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1887 - 692 ページ
...work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature; by judicious selections, rejections and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions, which have been usurped by fiction. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiarity of saying, as too insignificant... | |
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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,... 
