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 | Georgia Bar Association - 1888 - 1118 pages
...manner of thing he has got to work on and live on." Macaulay declares that the perfect historian is he in whose •work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar sayings as too insignificant for his notice,... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1912 - 422 pages
...history interesting and impressing. It is as illustration to a heavy discourse. "The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. . . . He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice,... | |
 | James Chandler - 1999 - 616 pages
...from Macaulay's 1828 programmatic remarks on history in the Edinburgh Review: The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age...is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But byjudicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been... | |
 | Roger Lundin, Anthony C. Thiselton, Clarence Walhout - 1999 - 280 pages
...ultimate purpose of writing history. In 1828 Thomas Babington Macaulay wrote, 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... | |
 | Donald R. Kelley - 2008 - 440 pages
...to his characters [sic], which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony"; but on the other hand "by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement...those attractions which have been usurped by fiction." These were all variations on the classical themes of the old ars histórica. Macaulay lived, acted,... | |
 | Nicola Bown, Carolyn Burdett, Pamela Thurschwell - 2004 - 336 pages
...plausible reconstruction of a specific moment. Like that of Macaulay's 'perfect historian, in Hunt's work 'the character and spirit of an age is exhibited...characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony.'63 Although appreciative of Hunt's efforts, William Dyce felt that The Finding of the Saviour... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 2005 - 553 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... | |
 | Catherine Hall, Sonya O. Rose - 2006 - 33 pages
...'noiseless revolutions' that transformed a social world. 'The perfect historian', he concluded, is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age...relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his character, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection... | |
 | H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1882 - 802 pages
...history." Further on, he delineates the qualities of the perfect historian : — " 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... | |
 | University of Bombay - 1915 - 500 pages
...Baudelaire). SECTION II. l_ 3. Translate into French": — 25 The perfect Historian. 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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