 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 Calcutta University Calendar - Стр. clxxавторы: University of Calcutta - 1881Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - Страниц: 878
...state to a few fine 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 is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - 1884 - Страниц: 1152
...and the coffee-house. 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 is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is... | |
 | Prose masterpieces - 1884 - Страниц: 310
...in state to a few fine sights, and from having held formal conference with a 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 no expression to his characters, which... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1887 - Страниц: 692
...wasted and expelled.] 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... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1888 - Страниц: 300
...in state to a few 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... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1888 - Страниц: 310
...in state to a few 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... | |
 | John Franklin Genung - 1889 - Страниц: 338
...state to a few fine 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1889 - Страниц: 796
...state to a few fine 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 is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - Страниц: 1100
...state to a few fine sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. The spect, would have puzzled Simplicius and Isidore. Ask a follower of Bacon w exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - Страниц: 462
...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 is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which is... | |
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