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" ... of man. He shows us the court, the camp, and the senate; but he shows us also the nation. 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... "
The Miscellaneous Writings of Lord Macaulay - Page 129
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1865 - 395 pages
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What Can Literature Do for Me?

Charles Alphonso Smith - Literature - 1924 - 240 pages
...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. 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...
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Essays in Memory of Barrett Wendell

English literature - 1926 - 346 pages
...rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. . . . Men will not merely be described, but will be made...from statistical documents, but by appropriate images present in every line." And then comes that well-known paragraph: "If a man, such as we are supposing,...
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Literary Studies, Volume 1

Walter Bagehot - English literature - 1927 - 410 pages
...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. Men will...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,...
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The Case of Whiskey

George Coes Howell - Alcoholism - 1928 - 266 pages
...he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. Men will not merely be described but will be made intimately known to us. — MACAULEY. AS a means towards creating the wave of fanatical emotion which rendered possible the...
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Report of Proceedings of the ... Annual Session of the Georgia Bar ..., Volume 4

Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1888 - 1120 pages
...notice, which are not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws of religion and of education and to mark the progress of the human mind. Men will...but by appropriate images presented in every line. And he adds if history was thus written we should not have to look for the wars and votes of the Puritans...
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Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C., Volume 15

Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1912 - 422 pages
...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. Men will...but by appropriate images presented in every line. ' ' — ' ' Task of the Modern Historian, " Lord Macaulay. Dr. Balch had ancestors and progeny and...
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England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic ...

James Chandler - History - 1999 - 616 pages
...degree in which they elucidate the condition of society and the nature of man. . . .The changes in manners will be indicated, not merely by a few general...documents, but by appropriate images presented in every line.7 I do not suggest here that Macaulay and Ginzburg are making the same point, nor that their terminology...
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The Victorian Review, Volume 6

H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1882 - 802 pages
...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. Men will...but by appropriate images presented in every line." Here we have the historian's own exposition of the historical method which he subsequently followed....
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Pass school, group A (-D).

Oxford univ, exam. papers, 2nd publ. exam - 1884 - 594 pages
...too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of education, and to mark tho progress of the human mind. Men will not merely be...but by appropriate images presented in every line. (2) Arrived at the end of the long valley, you find yourself in a circular hollow, so exquisitely sweet...
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The Bombay University Calendar, Volume 2

University of Bombay - 1915 - 500 pages
...if it is not too insignificant to illustrate the operation of laws, of religion, and of education, and to mark the progress of the human mind. Men will...described, but will be made intimately known to us. 4. Translate into French :— The blind' Boy- and' His Sister, ...... She tells him how the mountains...
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