 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
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - Страниц: 450
...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... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1902 - Страниц: 440
...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 is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - Страниц: 476
...English language is spoken in any quarter of the globe. THE PERFECT HISTORIAN (Essay on History) THE perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no facts, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - Страниц: 506
...a few fine sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. ' Thejjerfect 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... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1904 - Страниц: 344
...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... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1905 - Страниц: 358
...sentence may, however, be periodic to a considerable degree, as in the following from Macaulay. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. The sentence is loose, for the sense might be completed and a period placed... | |
 | Edward Fulton - 1906 - Страниц: 286
...paragraph. Observe the effectiveness of the following admirably unified paragraph from Macaulay: 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... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1907 - Страниц: 306
...should be, and of this description he finally proved himself almost the embodiment. He writes : ' " 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... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1909 - Страниц: 328
...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^char1 Essay on ' History.'... | |
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