 are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract truth which interpenetrates them, and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its whole value; and the precious particles are generally combined with the baser in such...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 155by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 508 pages
...who does not explain the phenomena as well as state them, performs only one half of his office. Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract...and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, (hat the mass derives its whole value : and the precious particles are generally combined with the... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...who does not explain the phenomena as well as state them, performs only one-half of his office. Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract...and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, (hat the mass derives its whole value ; arid the precious particles are generally combined with the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1084 pages
...who does not explain the phenomena as well as state them performs only one half of his office. Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract...the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty. Here Thucydides is deficient: the deficiency, indeed, is not discreditable to him. It was the inevitable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1860 - 424 pages
...who does not explain the phenomena as well as state them performs only one half of his office. Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract...the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty. Here Thucydides is deficient: the deficiency, indeed, is not discreditable to him. It was the inevitable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 1102 pages
...who does not explain the phenomena as well as state them performs only one half of his office. Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract...the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty. Here Thucydides is deficient: the deficiency, indeed, is not discreditable to him. It was the inevitable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 426 pages
...who does not explain the phenomena as well as state them performs only one half of his office. Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract...the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty. Here Thucydides is deficient: the deficiency, indeed, is not discreditable to him. It was the inevitable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1865 - 418 pages
...who does not explain the phenomena as well as state them performs only one half of his office. Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract...the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty. Here Thucydides is deficient: the deficiency, indeed, is not discreditable to him. It was the inevitable... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1865 - 488 pages
...who does not explain.the phenomena as well as state them performs only one half of his office. Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract...the separation is a task of the utmost difficulty. In spite of this great fault, it must be allowed that Thueydides has surpassed all his rivals in the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...who does not explain the phenomena as well as state them performs only one half of his office. Facts are the mere dross of history. It is from the abstract...derives its whole value : and the precious particles are gex 2 nerally combined with the baser in such a manner that the separation is a task of the utmost... | |
 | 1871 - 436 pages
...Holy Land, while his brother John held the reins of empire in the United Kingdoms. Facts, it is said, are the mere dross of history; it is from the abstract truth which impenetrates them and lies latent among them, like gold in the ore, that the mass derives its value;... | |
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