| 1849 - 820 páginas
...them. The testimony of Macaulay is eloquently given, in his description of what history should be. " The perfect historian is he, in whose work, the character...not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicioue selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions, which have been... | |
| 1856 - 754 páginas
...is unrivalled among historians, and has very few superiors among dramatists and novelists." Again. " The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited » miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which is not authenticated... | |
| John Fanning Watson - 1857 - 686 páginas
...so wasted and expelled.] The Edinburgh Review, in discussing the leading objects of history, says," the perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature; by judicious selections, rejections and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions, which have... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 páginas
...gone in state to a few fine sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. ergy. It rarely happens that the fancy and the judgment...still more rarely that the judgment grows faster than bjr judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 426 páginas
...gone in state to a few fine sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character...to truth those attractions which have been usurped i by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent; others... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 1102 páginas
...an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to hia tharocters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony....arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which Uave been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed: some transactions are... | |
| John Fanning Watson - 1850 - 628 páginas
...so wasted and expelled.] The Edinburgh Review, in discussing the leading objects of history, says, " the perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature; by judicious selections, rejections and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions, which have... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 páginas
...in state to a few fine sights, and from having held forma! eonferences with a few great officers. f The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited m miniature. He relates 110 fact, he attributes no expression to his Characters, which is not authenticated... | |
| 1860 - 602 páginas
...content himself with conveying an impression of it. "The perfect historian," says the essay on History, " is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature." But to accomplish this requires the utmost discretion in selecting leading points, and in rejecting... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 páginas
...state to a few fine sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. TJie rope. The Castilians have a proverb, that in Valencia the earth miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated... | |
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