 | George Haven Putnam - 1888 - 312 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...by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, • . 1 HISTORY. 283 he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1888 - 310 ページ
...historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. . . . Jn his narrative a due subordination is observed : some...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... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1888 - 300 ページ
...historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. . . . Jn his narrative a due subordination is observed : some...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 - 1889 - 796 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... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1889 - 332 ページ
...historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He 150 relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his...fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : 155 some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1889 - 326 ページ
...historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniatured He 150 relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his...truth those attractions which have been usurped by fietion.f In his narrative a due subordination is observed : 155 some transactions are prominent ;... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1889 - 338 ページ
...attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : 155 some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But...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 - 1890 - 1100 ページ
...formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character k a follower of Bacon what the new philosophy, as...has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready : diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 482 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... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 470 ページ
...paint 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...scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but aecording 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,... 
