 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 страници
...then, and no history, can present us with the whole truth : but those are the best pictures and the best histories which exhibit such parts of the truth as most nearly produce ihe effect of the whole. He who is deficient in the art of selection may, by showing nothing but the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 820 страници
...then, and no history, can present ns with the whole truth : but those are the best pictures and the best histories which exhibit such parts of the truth...selection may, by showing nothing but the truth, produce ail the effect of the grossest falsehood. It perpetually happens that one writer tells less truth than... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 страници
...then, and no history, can present us with the whole truth. : but those are the best pictures and the best histories which exhibit such parts of the truth...of selection may, by showing nothing but the truth, proVOL. v. K > duce all the effect of the grossest falsehood. It perpstually happens that one writer... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 704 страници
...then, and no history, can present us with the whole truth : but those are the best pictures and the best histories which exhibit such parts of the truth...of selection may, by showing nothing but the truth, proVOL. v. K duce all the effect of the grossest falsehood. It perpetually happens that one writer... | |
 | Andrew Dousa Hepburn - 1875 - 298 страници
...history," says Macaulay, " can present us with the whole truth; but those are the best pictures and the best histories which exhibit such parts of the truth as most nearly produce the effect of the whole." Nothing that is essential to the consistency and unity of the whole, or to explain the course of events,... | |
 | John Charles Dent - 1881 - 504 страници
...the whole truth : but those are the best pictures and the best histories which exhibit siich paris of the truth as most nearly produce the effect of the whole. . . History has iis foreground and its background ; and it is principally in the management of its... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1882 - 878 страници
...then, and no history, can present us with the whole truth : but those are the best pictures and the best histories which exhibit such parts of the truth...writer tells less truth than another, merely because Jie tells more truths. In the imitative arts we constantly see this. There are lines in the human face,... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - 1884 - 1152 страници
...then, and no history, can present us with the whole truth ; but those are the best pictures and the best histories which exhibit such parts of the truth as most nearly produce the effect of the whole. History has its foreground and its background, and it is principally in the management of its perspective... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 682 страници
...then, and no history, can present us with the whole truth : but those are the best pictures and the best histories which exhibit such parts of the truth as most nearly produce the effect of the whole. VOL. Vll ti He who is deficient in the art of selection may, by showing nothing but the truth, produce... | |
 | 1899 - 704 страници
...cannot bear the innocence of others : he tries to reduce other characters to his own level. С. /лг. He who is deficient in the art of selection may, by...falsehood. It perpetually happens that one writer tells les:; truth than another, merely because he tells 1 more truth. Macau 'ay. He who is destitute of principles... | |
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No picture, then, and no history, can present us with the whole truth : but those are the best pictures and the best histories which exhibit such parts of the truth as most nearly produce the effect of the whole. 
