 HISTORY, at least in its state of ideal perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy. It impresses general truths on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents.  Calendar ... - Strana 379podľa University College, Galway - 1903Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1842 - Počet stránok 576
...' Constitutional History,' that ' History should be a compound of poetry and philosophy, impressing general truths on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents. While our historians,' he says, 'are practising nil the arts of controversy, they miserably neglect... | |
 | Robert Cassie Waterston - 1842 - Počet stránok 338
...Hallam's Constitutional History, that " History should be a compound of poetry and philosophy, impressing general truths on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents. While our historians," he says, " are practising all the arts of controversy, they miserably neglect... | |
 | 1842 - Počet stránok 554
...' Constitutional History,' that 'History should be a compound of poetry and philosophy, impressing general truths on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents. While our historians,' he says, 'are practising all the arts of controversy, they miserably neglect... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - Počet stránok 780
...HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY/ [EDINBURGH REVIEW, 1828.] HISTOBT, at least in its state of imaginary been-known to form a perfect amalgamation ; and at length, in our own time, they have been completely... | |
 | 1860 - Počet stránok 452
...says, " The dramatist creates, the historian disposes," and we perfectly coincide with the opinion that "history, at least in its state of ideal perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy," though we see the danger that opens before the writer who adopts this view ; — on the one hand, he... | |
 | New England Historic Genealogical Society - 1915 - Počet stránok 746
...suggests, is at once historical, genealogical, and biographical. Macaulay has well said that "History, in its state of ideal perfection, is a compound of poetry and philosophy." The reports of the various standing and special committees, which follow this report, are so complete... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - Počet stránok 550
...perfect history, which he defines to be " a compound of poetry and philosophy, impressing general rules on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents." § 5. The other great writer on modern history in the present century, superior in judgment to Macaulay,... | |
 | 1905 - Počet stránok 334
...Avon the title of historian. Especially so, if we accopt the words of Macanlay when lie. says that "history, at least in its state of ideal perfection,...representation of particular characters and incidents." I; is Shakespeare who invests the dry and even uninteresting facts of history with the delightful charms... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1870 - Počet stránok 552
...perfect history, which he defines to be " a compound of poetry and philosophy, impressing general rules on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents." § 5. The other great writer on modern history in the present century, superior in judgment to Macaulay,... | |
 | 1876 - Počet stránok 616
...perfect history Macaulay defined as " a compound of poetry and philosophy, impressing' general rules on the mind by a vivid representation of particular characters and incidents." How diligently he wrought to attain this ideal may be gathered from what he writes in his journal :... | |
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