 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pagine
...contradictory virtues and vices they united, and abounding in withs and withouts ; all this is very easy. But to be a really great historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. Many Scientific works are, in their kind, absolutely perfect. There are Poems which we should be inclined... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pagine
...contradictory virtues and vices they united, and abounding in teitln and vMouts; all this is very easy. But Many Scientific works are, in their kind, absolutely perfect. There are Poems which we should be inclined... | |
 | 1851 - 614 pagine
...in the narrative, may be a comparatively easy task, and within the range of ordinary abilities. But to be a really great historian is, perhaps, the rarest of intellectual distinctions. Many scientific works are perfect in their kind ; many poems are almost faultless ; inany rhetorical... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 pagine
...contradictory virtues and vices they united, and abounding in wilhs and mthmtls; all this is very easy. But Many Scientific works are, in their kind, absolutely perfect. There are Puems which we should be inclined... | |
 | 1852 - 780 pagine
...contradictory virtues and vices they united, and abounding in uriths and wdhouti; all this is very easy. But s of late years been known among us. In Norway and Sweden the peasantry are consta Many Scientific works are, in their kind, absolutely perfect. There are Poems which we should be inclined... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 pagine
...contradictory virtues and vices they united, and abounding in mi Im and vuhauti; all this is very easy. But to be a really great historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. ManyScientific works are, in their kind, absolutely perfect. There are Poems which we should be inclined... | |
 | 1860 - 880 pagine
...virtues and .vices they united, and abounding in withs and without s — all this is very easy : but to be a really great historian is, perhaps, the rarest of intellectual distinctions . . . We are acquainted with no history which approaches to our notion of what a history ought to be... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1860 - 814 pagine
...writer should have failed, either in the narrative or in the speculative department of history. ... To be a really great historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. Many scientific works are in their kind absolutely perfect. There are poems which we should be inclined... | |
 | 1862 - 492 pagine
...the canons of historic literature will convince any reader of the accuracy of Macaulay's assertion, that " to be a really great historian is, perhaps, the rarest of intellectual distinctions." Some may object that these remarks apply more to original writers than to those who mast only industriously... | |
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... antithetical characters of great men, setting forth how many contradictory virtues and vices they united, and abounding in withs and withouts ; all this is very easy. But to be a really great historian is perhaps the rarest of intellectual distinctions. 
