 Walter Scott, in the same manner, has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which may well excite their envy. He has constructed out of their gleanings works which, even considered as histories,...  The National Review - Página 3541856Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | 1856 - 542 páginas
..."gleanings works, which, even consider"ed as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great his"torian would reclaim those materials "which the novelist has appropriated. " The government and the history of the "people would be exhibited in that mode "in which alone they can... | |
 | 1849 - 820 páginas
...their gleanings, works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials...conjunction and intermixture. We should not then have u> look for the wars and votes of the Puritans in Clarendon, and for their phraseology in Old Mortality,... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1857 - 686 páginas
...which histotians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which mny well excite their envy. A truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated ; society should be shown from the highest to the lowest. Instruction derived from history thus written... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - 1850 - 628 páginas
...which historians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which may well excite their envy. A truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated ; society should be shown from the highest to the lowest. Instruction derived from history thus written... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1922 - 784 páginas
...Walter Scott has used those fragmenta of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated.' Now, if you will look to see what Hume, Robertson, and Gibbon lack, you will see at once how very large... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 1102 páginas
...their gleanings works which even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than their's. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriateti. The history of the government, and the history of the people, would be exhibited in... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1084 páginas
...their gleanings works which; even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than their's. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropri-. ated. The history of the government, and the history of the people, would be exhibited in... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 426 páginas
...gleanings works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than their's. But_a_ truly great historian would reclaim those materials which the novelist has appropriated. TEe~history of the government, and the history of the people, would be exhibited in that mode in which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1865 - 418 páginas
...their gleanings works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials...intermixture. "We should not then have to look for tho wars and votes of the Puritans in Clarendon, and for their phraseology in Old Mortality; for one... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1872 - 502 páginas
...their gleanings works which, even considered as histories, are scarcely less valuable than theirs. But a truly great historian would reclaim those materials...the people, would be exhibited in that mode in which a'one they can be exhibited justly, in inseparable conjunction and intermixture. We should not then... | |
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