 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 - Pàgina clxxper University of Calcutta - 1881Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1828 - 608 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1849 - 782 pàgines
...Macaulay is eloquently giveu, iu his description of what history should be. " The perfect historian ia 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 - 1840 - 464 pàgines
...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 - 1846 - 782 pàgines
...state to a few fine sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. The s exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is... | |
 | 1849 - 820 pàgines
...The testimony of Macaulay is eloquently given, in his description of what history should be. " 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... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pàgines
...state to a few fine sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. The e as that which now inhabits Europe. The members of her community exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pàgines
...unrivalled among historians, and has very few superiors among dramatists and novelists." Again. " The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited » miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which is... | |
 | 1856 - 560 pàgines
...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... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1857 - 686 pàgines
...wasted and expelled.] The Edinburgh Review, in discussing 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pàgines
...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... | |
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