 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 468 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 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... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1902 - 440 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... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1902 - 500 ページ
...Nineteenth Century. Macaulay wrote in 1828 : " The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He...those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. ... A truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated. The... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 ページ
...he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no facts, he attributes no expression to his characters, which...•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 - 1903 - 506 ページ
...formal conferences with a few great officers. ' Thejjerfect historian is he in whose work the character and. , ' . : spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature....subordination is observed : some transactions are _ • prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished,... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 508 ページ
...globe. THE PERFECT HISTORIAN (Essay on History) THE perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no facts, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony.... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1904 - 344 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... | |
 | William Henry Sheran - 1905 - 602 ページ
...one in whose work the character and spirit of an age are exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony ; the true historian shows us the court, the camp, the senate. He shows us also the nation. He considers... | |
 | Edward Fulton - 1906 - 286 ページ
...admirably unified paragraph from Macaulay: The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He...selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to the truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination... | |
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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,... 
