...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...fiction. In his narrative, a due subordination is preserved : some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale, on which he represents them,...

...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...not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicioue selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions, which have been...

...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 not authenticated...

...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 attractions, which have...

...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...is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But bjr judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have...

...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...to truth those attractions which have been usurped i by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent; others...

...fine sights, and from having held formal tonferences with a few great officers. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an...He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to hia tharocters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection,...

...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 attractions, which have...

...content himself with conveying an impression of it. "The perfect historian," says the essay on History, " is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature." But to accomplish this requires the utmost discretion in selecting leading points, and in rejecting...

...sights, and from having held forma! eonferences with a few great officers. f The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited m miniature. He relates 110 fact, he attributes no expression to his Characters, which is not authenticated...