 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
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1888 - 310 pages
...fine sites 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 is exhibited in miniature. . . . Jn his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire.... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1888 - 300 pages
...fine sites 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 is exhibited in miniature. . . . Jn his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1889 - 796 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... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1889 - 332 pages
...sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. 9. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He 150 relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1889 - 328 pages
...sights, arid from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. 9. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniatured He 150 relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1100 pages
...sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is zled Simplicius and Isidore. Ask a follower of Bacon...has effected for mankind, and his answer is ready : observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 482 pages
...; 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 them... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 470 pages
...trait ; he can paint and justly paint any manners he chooses. "The 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... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 462 pages
...trait ; he can paint and justly paint any manners he chooses. "The perfect historian," he tells us, "is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age...by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, ho gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination... | |
 | William Minto - 1892 - 584 pages
..."intersperse the details which are the cliarm of historical romances." "The perfect historian is lie in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature." "We should nut have to look for the wars and votes of the Puritans in Clarendon, and for their phraseology... | |
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