 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 Southern literary messenger - Page 141849Full view - About this book
 | Elbert Hubbard - 1900 - 262 pages
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 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 pages
...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...fiction. In his narrative, a due subordination is observed; some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1902 - 440 pages
...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...by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed — some transactions are prominent, others retire ; but the scale on which he represents... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - 1902 - 500 pages
...have been developed in the Nineteenth Century. Macaulay wrote in 1828 : " The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age...those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. ... A truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated. The... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1900 - 210 pages
...it would not be easy to name their equal. (JC Morrison.) Use of Detail.—The 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, no familiar saying, as too insignificant to illustrate... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 476 pages
...he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no facts, he attributes no expression to his characters, which...by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the •scale on which he represents... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1903 - 470 pages
...spoken in any quarter of the globe. THE PERFECT HISTORIAN (Essay on History) THE perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no facts, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony.... | |
 | John William Cunliffe - 1904 - 344 pages
...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...by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But the scale on which he represents them... | |
 | Ashley Horace Thorndike - 1905 - 376 pages
...however, be periodic to a considerable degree, as in the following from Macaulay. The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited, in miniature. is periodic to that point. So the following sentence from Newman is periodic as far as " hut " ; after... | |
 | William Henry Sheran - 1905 - 602 pages
...one in whose work the character and spirit of an age are exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony ; the true historian shows us the court, the camp, the senate. He shows us also the nation. He considers... | |
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