 Jordan. 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 «» By judicious selection,...  The Southern literary messenger - Página 2391858Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1856 - 754 páginas
...is 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 not authenticated... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1857 - 686 páginas
...so 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 attractions, which have... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 páginas
...gone in state to a few fine sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. ergy. It rarely happens that the fancy and the judgment...still more rarely that the judgment grows faster than bjr judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1850 - 628 páginas
...so 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 attractions, which have... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 páginas
...in state to a few fine 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... | |
 | 1860 - 600 páginas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 páginas
...state to a few fine sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. TJie rope. The Castilians have a proverb, that in Valencia the earth miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 páginas
...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 thu utmost discretion in selecting leading points, and in rejecting... | |
 | 1867 - 972 páginas
...horizon, and a general idea of their joint effect will be given by a few slight touche,-." . . . " The perfect historian is he in whose work the character...and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He phetic manuscript, and can be folly interpreted by no man." . . . " The artist in history may be distinguished... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 418 páginas
...QUIKTILIAN, Instit. Orat. xci 34. HISTORY— ITS EXCELLENCE CONSISTS IN REPRODUCING THE SPIRIT OF PAST AGES. THE perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age are exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters which... | |
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