 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 284 ページ
...terms of human helpfulness. — David Starr Jordan. 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 «» By judicious selection, rejection and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 ページ
...of human helpfulness. — David Starr Jordan. 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 »» By judicious selection, rejection... | |
 | Harry Morgan Ayres, Frederick Morgan Padelford - 1924 - 942 ページ
...formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character eet, And drouthy neebours neebours meet, As market-days...bousing at the nappy, An' gettin fou and unco happy, We diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1924 - 238 ページ
...whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates 1 Essay on History. 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... | |
 | 1926 - 346 ページ
...while he "relates no fact . . . which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony," at the same time, "by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement,...those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. . . . Men will not merely be described, but will be made intimately known to us. The changes of manners... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1928 - 392 ページ
...MACAULAY 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... | |
 | George Coes Howell - 1928 - 266 ページ
...he in whose work the character and spirit of the age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no facts, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. Men will not merely be described but will be made intimately known to us. — MACAULEY. AS a means... | |
 | James Chandler - 1999 - 616 ページ
...remarks on history in the Edinburgh Review: The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He...is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But byjudicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been... | |
 | Roger Lundin, Anthony C. Thiselton, Clarence Walhout - 1999 - 280 ページ
...history. In 1828 Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote, 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... | |
 | Donald R. Kelley - 2008 - 440 ページ
...to his characters [sic], which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony"; but on the other hand "by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement...those attractions which have been usurped by fiction." These were all variations on the classical themes of the old ars histórica. Macaulay lived, acted,... | |
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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,... 
