 He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice, which is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of education, and to mark the progress of the human mind....  Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Página 65por Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 744 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Ernest Rhys - 1922 - 360 páginas
...others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but...phrases or a few extracts from statistical documents, but by appropriate images presented in every line. 261 If a man, such as we are supposing, should write... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 252 páginas
...nation. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too significant for his notice which is not too insignificant to illustrate...described, but will be made intimately known to us. — Macaulay. .••*• .•>•. HE ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will... | |
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1923 - 278 páginas
...nation. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too significant for his notice which is not too insignificant to illustrate...described, but will be made intimately known to us. — Macaulay. £•» £» ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day... | |
 | 1924 - 942 páginas
...others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according but by appropriate images presented in every line. If a man, such as we are supposing, should write... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - 1924 - 240 páginas
...others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but...Men will not merely be described, but will be made Ultimately known to us. The changes of manners will be indicated, not merely by a few general phrases... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1927 - 410 páginas
...others retire; but the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but...general phrases, or a few extracts from statistical documerits, but by appropriate images presented in every line. If a man, such as we are supposing,... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - 1888 - 1120 páginas
...anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar sayings as too insignificant for his notice, which are not too insignificant to illustrate the operation...phrases or a few extracts from statistical documents, but by appropriate images presented in every line. And he adds if history was thus written we should... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - 1912 - 422 páginas
...perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. . . . He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner,...phrases, or a few extracts from statistical documents, but by appropriate images presented in every line. ' ' — ' ' Task of the Modern Historian, " Lord... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 2005 - 552 páginas
...nation. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignficant for his notice which is not too insignificant to illustrate...phrases or a few extracts from statistical documents, but by appropriate images presented in every line. If a man, such as we are supposing, should write... | |
 | H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1882 - 802 páginas
...others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but...phrases, or a few extracts from statistical documents, but by appropriate images presented in every line." Here we have the historian's own exposition of... | |
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