| American Antiquarian Society - 1867 - 730 páginas
...jurisdiction of two hostile powers. Instead of being equally shared between its two rulers, the Reason and the Imagination, it falls alternately under the...each. It is sometimes fiction, it is sometimes theory. " This salutary fear of the keen, uncompromising ploughshare of the antiquary, in laying open to the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 páginas
...ill cultivated, and ill regulated. Instead of being equally shared between its two rulers, the Reason and the Imagination, it falls alternately under the...each. It is sometimes fiction. It is sometimes theory. * The Romance of History. England. By HENRY NEELE. London, 1828. History, it has been said, is philosophy... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 páginas
...ill cultivated, and ill regulated. Instead of being equally shared between its two rulers, the Reason and the Imagination, it falls alternately under the sole and absolute dominion of each. It is somelimes fiction. It is sometimes theory. f_ History, it has been said, is philosophy ^"teaching by... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 páginas
...ill cultivated, and ill regulated. Instead of being equally shared between its fwo rulers, the Reason and the Imagination, it falls alternately under the...each. It is sometimes fiction. It is sometimes theory. It may be laid down as a general rule, though subject to considerate qualifications and exceptions,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 páginas
...cultivated, and ill regulated. Instead of being* equally shared between its two rulers, the Reason and the Imagination, it falls alternately under the...imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative alTecting and picturesque. Yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 páginas
...ill cultivated, and ill regulated. Instead of being equally shared between its two rulers, the Reason and the Imagination, it falls alternately under the...of each. It is sometimes fiction. It is sometimes theorye History, it has been said, is philosophy teaching by examples. Unhappily, what the philosophy... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1865 - 458 páginas
...which does not widely depart, either on the right hand or on the left, from the exact line. 106 107 The cause may easily be assigned. This province of...imagination sufficiently powerful to make his narrative afieeting and picturesque. Yet he must control it so absolutely as to content himself with the materials... | |
| 1865 - 496 páginas
...ill-cultivated, and illregulated. Instead of being equally shared between its two rulers, the reason and the imagination, it falls alternately under the...each. It is sometimes fiction. It is sometimes theory. ... It may be laid down as a general rule, though subject to considerable qualifications and exceptions,... | |
| 1865 - 980 páginas
...equally shared between its two ruVrs, the reason and the imagination, it falls alternately under the fuie and absolute dominion of each. It is sometimes fiction. It is sometimes theory. ... It may be laid down as a general n:lí. though subject to considerable qualifications and exceptions,... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 páginas
...cultivated, and ill regulated. Instead of being equally — shared between its two rulers, the Reason and the Imagination, it falls alternately under the...History, it has been said, is philosophy teaching by.ex• ' amples. Unhappily, what the philosophy gains in soundness and depth the examples generally... | |
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