 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,...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 141849Full view - About this book
 | Blanchard Jerrold - Novelists, English - 1872 - 502 pages
...gratified by travelling over half the globe." Lord Macaulay has written of the perfect historian as one in whose work the character and spirit of an age is...by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - Latin language - 1875 - 416 pages
...PAST AGES. r I ^HE perfect historian is he in whose work the character and -L spirit of an age are exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes...by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1876 - 506 pages
...sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age...by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1876 - 508 pages
...sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age...by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...mighty and various organization which lies deep below. LORD MACAULAY : History. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age...relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characiers, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection,... | |
 | Henry H. Lancaster - English literature - 1876 - 512 pages
...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... | |
 | University of Oxford - Greek language - 1879 - 414 pages
...prospects of the larger islands. IX. French. 1. 1. Translate into French : — (1) The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age...by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...mighty and various organization which lies deep below. LORD MACAULAY : History. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age...by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1880 - 640 pages
...sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age...by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 462 pages
...sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age...by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
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