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 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English - 1880 - 844 pages
...sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officer*. 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 - 460 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... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - History - 1881 - 368 pages
...conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the charac- 5 ter and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He...by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | William Minto - English prose literature - 1881 - 596 pages
...would "intersperse the details which are the charm of historical romances." " The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature." "We should not have to look for the wars and votes of the Puritans in Clarendon, and for their phraseology... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1881 - 556 pages
...Shakespeare's play*. ENGLISH LITERATURE, III. Examiner — ME. WH PAULSON, м. A. 1. Thn perfect historian is he, in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhihited in miniatnre." " History, in its ideal perfection, is a mixtnre of poetry and philosophy."... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1882 - 878 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... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - World history - 1884 - 1152 pages
...He must obtain admittance to the convivial table and the domestic hearth. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age...fiction. In his narrative, a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire. If a man, such as we are supposing, should... | |
 | Prose masterpieces - 1884 - 310 pages
...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 fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1887 - 692 pages
...The Edinburgh Review, in discugsing 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... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - English essays - 1888 - 312 pages
...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... | |
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