| Albert Stratford George Canning - 1907 - 306 ページ
...himself almost the embodiment. He writes : ' " 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 ." Macaulay's avowed liking for scholastic education and delightful recollections even of school life,... | |
| Walter Bagehot - 1909 - 328 ページ
...any manners he chooses. ' [The] perfect historian,' he tells us, ' 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^char1 Essay on ' History.' All the other quotations on the page are from the same source. acters,... | |
| Edward Fulton - 1911 - 336 ページ
...how carefully the writer keeps to his topic : 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... | |
| Charles Alphonso Smith - 1913 - 248 ページ
...each of our chosen essayists: FROM MACAULAY* "The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He...which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. *Essay on History. But by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those... | |
| Charles Alphonso Smith - 1913 - 244 ページ
...the paragraph and sometimes at the end. Try these positions here. Begin with "The perfect historian relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his...which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony." Now place the omitted first sentence just before "He shows us the court, the camp, and the senate."... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1916 - 824 ページ
...influence. THOMAS B. MACAULAY The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of the age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact,...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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 366 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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 ページ
...conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and i spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates...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... | |
| Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1917 - 716 ページ
...historian is he in whose work the character and spiTiFof an afE"is exhibited in miniature. He-relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters,...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... | |
| Ernest Rhys - 1922 - 360 ページ
...HISTORIAN BY THOMAS BABINGT*ON MACAULAY (1800-1859) 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... | |
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