 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
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 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...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 - 1846 - 782 pages
...sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is on Macaulay observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pages
...sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is nhabits Europe. The members of her community observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire. B ' the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pages
...having held formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work %e character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature....fiction. In his narrative, a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 560 pages
...trait; he can paint, and justly paint, any manners he chooses. " A perfect historian," he tells us, " 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... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1857 - 686 pages
...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 pages
...sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is hat the fancy and the judgment grow together. It happens...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 - 1859 - 768 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...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 - 1860 - 450 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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