| Robert Cassie Waterston - Moral education - 1842 - 334 pages
...by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents. While our historians," he says, " are practising all the arts of controversy, they miserably...sufficiently proved by many excellent biographical works. The instruction derived from history thus written, would be of a vivid and practical character. It would... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1842 - 554 pages
...mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents. While our historians,' he says, 'are practising all the arts of controversy, they...interesting the affections, and presenting pictures to the imaginetion. That a writer may produce these effects without violating truth, is sufficiently proved... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1842 - 576 pages
...representation of particular characters and incidents. While our historians,' he says, 'are practising nil the arts of controversy, they miserably neglect the art of narration, the an of interesting the affections, and presenting pictures to the imagination. That a writer may produce... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...term, is disappearing. The high, grave, impartial summing up of Thucydides is nowhere to be found. fore we are not simply with out exception to urge...succession of bishops in every effectual ordination." imagi tion. That a writer may produce these effects withoat violating truth is sufficiently proved... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1856 - 770 pages
...term, is disappearing. The high, grave, impartial summing up of Thucydides is nowhere to be found. While our historians are practising all the arts of...interesting the affections, and presenting pictures tu the imagination. That a writer may produce these effects without violating truth is sufficiently... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...the term is disappearing. The high, grave, impartía summing up of Thucydides is nowhere to be "ound. ith regard to their people under which a military...have found it as dangerous to grind their subjects provee by many excellent biographical works. The immense popularity which well-written books of this... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1865 - 488 pages
...term, is disappearing. The high, grave, impartial summing up of Thucydides is nowhere to be found. While our historians are practising all the arts of...may produce these effects without violating truth is sufficientlyproved by many excellent biographical works. The immense popularity which well-written... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1876 - 508 pages
...— more than twenty years before the puolication of the first volumes of his History of England.) WHILE our historians are practising all the arts of...which wellwritten books of this kind have acquired, deserve?, \\-\e. •swws AA THE HISTORIAN. consideration of historians. Voltaire's Charles the Twelfth,... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...To Kollin and Barthelemi, in the same manner, all the classics were contemporaries. LORD MACAULAY : History. While our historians are practising all the...immense popularity which well-written books of this kind hnve acquired deserves the serious consideration of historians. Voltaire's Charles the Twelfth, Marmontel's... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1876 - 506 pages
...;— more than twenty years before the publication of the first volumes of his History of England.) WHILE our historians are practising all the arts of...imagination. That a writer may produce these effects with-, out violating truth is sufficiently proved by many excellent biographical w.orks. The immense... | |
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