 | Nicola Bown, Carolyn Burdett, Pamela Thurschwell - 2004 - 336 ページ
...reconstruction of a specific moment. Like that of Macaulay's 'perfect historian, in Hunt's work 'the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He...characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony.'63 Although appreciative of Hunt's efforts, William Dyce felt that The Finding of the Saviour... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 2005 - 553 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... | |
 | Catherine Hall, Sonya O. Rose - 2006 - 33 ページ
...transformed a social world. 'The perfect historian', he concluded, 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 character, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection... | |
 | H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1882 - 802 ページ
...qualities of the perfect historian : — " 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... | |
 | Oxford univ, exam. papers, 2nd publ. exam - 1884 - 594 ページ
...French. 1. 1. Translate into French : — • (i) 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... | |
 | 1890 - 340 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... | |
 | University of Bombay - 1915 - 500 ページ
...into French": — 25 The perfect Historian. 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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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,... 
