 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,...  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Page 65by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 744 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 820 pages
...wars, congresses, and debates, his studies will be as unprofitable as the travels of those imptrial, royal, and serene sovereigns, who form their judgment...he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree in which they... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1084 pages
...not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and ar* rangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been...he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree in which they... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 1102 pages
...by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which Uave been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination...he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree in which they... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 426 pages
...selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped i by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is...he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree in which they... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1865 - 418 pages
...must proceed on the same principle. If he attends only to public transactions, to wars, congresse;, and debates, his studies will be as unprofitable as...he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree in which they... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 pages
...in whose work the character and 5irit.pt! an age is exhibited^ in miniature. He relates no fact, ie attributes no expression to his characters, which...he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree in which they... | |
 | Great Britain - 1867 - 972 pages
...who understood and saw and knew within himself all that the whole family of Adam had hitherto bein relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his...truth those attractions which have been usurped by fíction. In his narrative a clue subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent, others... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1871 - 704 pages
...domestic hearth. He must bear with vulgar expressions. He must not shrink from exploring even the retreats of misery. He who wishes to understand the condition...he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree in which they... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - Novelists, English - 1872 - 502 pages
...gratified by travelling over half the globe." Lord Macaulay has written of the perfect historian as one in whose work the character and spirit of an age is...he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree in which they... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - Latin language - 1875 - 416 pages
...PAST AGES. r I ^HE perfect historian is he in whose work the character and -L spirit of an age are exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes...he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree in which they... | |
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