 | 1828 - 608 стор.
...attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement,...those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are nrominent, others retire.... | |
 | 1849 - 782 стор.
...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 age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 стор.
...gone in state to a few 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 age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 стор.
...attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement,...those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative, a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 стор.
...gone in state to a few fine sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers. * He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient... | |
 | 1849 - 820 стор.
...them. The testimony of 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 an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient... | |
 | 1852 - 780 стор.
...gone in state to a few 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 age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 стор.
...attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement,...those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative, a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire.... | |
 | 1856 - 754 стор.
...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... | |
 | 1856 - 560 стор.
...trait; he can paint, and justly paint, any manners he chooses. " A perfect historian," he tells us, " 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... | |
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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,... 
