Readings in English Prose of the Nineteenth Century
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If he attends only to public trans- actions, to wars, congresses, and debates, his studies will be as unprofitable as the travels of those imperial, royal, and serene sovereigns who form their judgment of our island from" having gone in state to a few fine sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers.
The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characte...rs, which is not authen- ticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed: some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is in- 272 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY creased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the per- sons concerned in them, but according to the degree in which they elucidate the condition of society and the nature of man.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
If he attends only to public trans- actions, to wars, congresses, and debates, his studies will be as unprofitable as the travels of those imperial, royal, and serene sovereigns who form their judgment of our island from" having gone in state to a few fine sights, and from having held formal conferences with a few great officers.
The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characte...rs, which is not authen- ticated by sufficient testimony. But, by judicious selection, rejection, and arrangement, he gives to truth those attractions which have been usurped by fiction. In his narrative a due subordination is observed: some transactions are prominent, others retire. But the scale on which he represents them is in- 272 THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY creased or diminished, not according to the dignity of the per- sons concerned in them, but according to the degree in which they elucidate the condition of society and the nature of man.
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