...' Constitutional History,' that ' History should be a compound of poetry and philosophy, impressing general truths on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents. While our historians,' he says, 'are practising nil the arts of controversy, they miserably neglect...

...Hallam's Constitutional History, that " History should be a compound of poetry and philosophy, impressing general truths on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents. While our historians," he says, " are practising all the arts of controversy, they miserably neglect...

...' Constitutional History,' that 'History should be a compound of poetry and philosophy, impressing general truths on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents. While our historians,' he says, 'are practising all the arts of controversy, they miserably neglect...

...HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY/ [EDINBURGH REVIEW, 1828.] HISTOBT, at least in its state of imaginary been-known to form a perfect amalgamation ; and at length, in our own time, they have been completely...

...says, " The dramatist creates, the historian disposes," and we perfectly coincide with the opinion that "history, at least in its state of ideal perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy," though we see the danger that opens before the writer who adopts this view ; — on the one hand, he...

...suggests, is at once historical, genealogical, and biographical. Macaulay has well said that "History, in its state of ideal perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy." The reports of the various standing and special committees, which follow this report, are so complete...

...perfect history, which he defines to be " a compound of poetry and philosophy, impressing general rules on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents." § 5. The other great writer on modern history in the present century, superior in judgment to Macaulay,...

...Avon the title of historian. Especially so, if we accopt the words of Macanlay when lie. says that "history, at least in its state of ideal perfection,...representation of particular characters and incidents." I; is Shakespeare who invests the dry and even uninteresting facts of history with the delightful charms...

...perfect history, which he defines to be " a compound of poetry and philosophy, impressing general rules on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents." § 5. The other great writer on modern history in the present century, superior in judgment to Macaulay,...

...perfect history Macaulay defined as " a compound of poetry and philosophy, impressing' general rules on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents." How diligently he wrought to attain this ideal may be gathered from what he writes in his journal :...