 | 1900 - 286 pages
...his own mind. He saw the actors and put fitting language in their mouths. On this point, he says : "Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. He must himself be, as it were, a sharer or spectator of the men he describes." He caught the spirit... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Canada - 1871 - 470 pages
...present, but of which he trusts to make fitting acknowledgment hereafter. Yet he cannot forbear to mention the name of Mr. John Gilmary Shea, of New York, to...taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The nar rator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in... | |
 | James Schouler - History - 1896 - 348 pages
...atmosphere of the times he described. " Faithfulness to the truth of history," as he justly observed, "involves far more than a research, however patient...may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and still 10 HISTORICAL BRIEFS. the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator... | |
 | George Rice Carpenter - American literature - 1898 - 498 pages
...temperament all his microscopic industry would have availed him but little. To use his own words, " Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning." These are words which the mere Dryasdust can never comprehend ; yet they are golden words for the student... | |
 | george rice carpenter - 1898 - 498 pages
...temperament all his microscopic industry would have availed him but little. To use his own words, " Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning." These are words which the mere Dryasdust can never comprehend; yet they are golden words for the student... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Canada - 1899 - 312 pages
...inborn temperament all his microscopic industry would have availed him but little. To use his own words, "Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue." These are golden words for the student of the historical art to ponder. To make a truthful record of... | |
 | John Fiske - Biography & Autobiography - 1899 - 502 pages
...temperament all his microscopic industry would have availed him but little. To use his own words: " Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue." These are golden words for the student of the historical art to ponder. To make a truthful record of... | |
 | John Fiske - Arbitration (International law) - 1900 - 504 pages
...temperament all his microscopic industry would have availed him but little. To use his own words: " Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue." These are golden words for the student of the historical art to ponder. To make a truthful record of... | |
 | Francis Parkman - Frontier and pioneer life - 1901 - 448 pages
...to animate them with the life of the past, and so far as might be, clothe the skeleton with flesh. Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events... | |
 | Edward Gaylord Bourne - Literary Criticism - 1901 - 328 pages
...to animate them with Ihe life of the past, and, so far as might be, clothe the skeleton with flesh. Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facta. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study... | |
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Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. 
