 The 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. But, by judicious selection,...  The National Review - Page 375edited by - 1856Full view - About this book
 | 1849 - 782 pages
...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,... | |
 | Literature - 1849 - 820 pages
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 754 pages
...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 - Pennsylvania - 1857 - 686 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 426 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 1102 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1860 - 600 pages
...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... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1850 - 628 pages
...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 - English literature - 1860 - 1084 pages
...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... | |
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