... wardrobes, to explain the uses of their ponderous furniture, these parts of the duty which properly belongs to the historian have been appropriated by the historical novelist. On the other hand, to extract the philosophy of history, to direct our... Calendar ... - Pągina 380per University College, Galway - 1903Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1828 - 746 pągines
...appropriated by the historical novelist. On the other hand, to extract the-philosophy of history,.—.to direct our judgment of events and men, —to trace...become the business of a distinct class of writers.” “The writers of history seem to entertain an aristocratical contempt for the writers of memoirs.... | |
| 1828 - 724 pągines
...— these parts of the duty which properly belongs to the historian, have been appropriated by the historical novelist. On the other hand, to extract...become the business of a distinct class of writers." " The writers of history seem to entertain an aristocratical contempt for the writers of memoirs. They... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pągines
...the philosophy of history— to direct our judgment of events and men — to trace the connection ui ha^. been thus divided, the one may he compared to a map, the other to a painted landscape. The picture,... | |
| 1855 - 494 pągines
...hand, to extract the ...- -, . . of history; to direct our of events and men; to trac« the of canses and effects, and to draw from the occurrences of former times general ........ of moral and political wisdom, has become the business of a distinct class of writers.'—... | |
| 1852 - 780 pągines
...the philosophy of history — to direct our judgment of events and men — to trace the connection he compared to a map, the other to a painted landscape. The picture, though it places the object before... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pągines
...the philosophy of history — to direct our judgment of events and men — to trace the connection of causes and effects, and to draw from the occurrences of former times general lessons of moral nnd political wisdom, has become the business of a distinct class of writers. Of the two kinds of composition... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pągines
...the philosophy of history — to direct our judgment of, events and men — la trace the connection of causes and effects, and to draw from the occurrences...and political wisdom, has become the business of a dislinct class of writers. Of the two kinds of composition into which history has been Unis divided,... | |
| 1861 - 594 pągines
...extract the philosophy of history, to direct our judgment of events and men, to trace the connection of causes and effects, and to draw from the occurrences...times general lessons of moral and political wisdom." lie complained that one of these two parts of an historian's duties had been abandoned to historical... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1861 - 600 pągines
...extract the philosophy of history, to direct our judgment of events and men, to trace the connection of causes and effects, and to draw from the occurrences...times general lessons of moral and political wisdom." He complained that one of these two parts of an historian's duties had been abandoned to historical... | |
| 1864 - 990 pągines
...direct our judgment of events and men, to trace the connection of cause and effect, and to draw from tho occurrences of former times general lessons of moral...become the business of a distinct class of writers. A distinguished historian tells us that "there are many scenes, which are either sad or beautiful,... | |
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