 He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his...  The Southern literary messenger - Page 141849Full view - About this book
 | Walter Bagehot - 1891 - 470 pages
...attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed, — some transactions are prominent, others retire; but...the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but aecording to the degree in which they elucidate the condition of society and the nature of man. He... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1893 - 460 pages
...attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent, others retire. But...scale on which he represents them is increased or 6 diminished, not according to the dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the degree... | |
 | Henry Leonard Stillson - 1897 - 994 pages
...attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed ; some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But...condition of society and the nature of man. . . . He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignificant for his notice,... | |
 | George Eugène Fasnacht - 1897 - 216 pages
...attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But...according to the dignity of the persons concerned 10 in them, but according to the degree in which they elucidate the condition of society and the nature... | |
 | Northwest Territories Council of Public Instruction - 1897 - 628 pages
...his narrative a due subordination is observed, some transactions are prominent, others retire. (5) But the scale on which he represents them is increased or diminished, not according to ihe dignity of the persons concerned in them, but according to the decree in which they elucidate the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 236 pages
...attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is"o"Eserved ; some transactions are prominent, others retire. But...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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 682 pages
...attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But...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,... | |
 | 1900 - 178 pages
...attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed : some transactions are prominent ; others retire. But...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,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 468 pages
...attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative, a due subordination is observed; some transactions are prominent, others retire. But...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,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 450 pages
...attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative, a due subordination is observed; some transactions are prominent, others retire. But...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 saving,... | |
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