...observational, and practical research. This approach has its advantages. It was F. Parkman who wrote, ". . . faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...however patient and scrupulous into special facts. The narrator must himself be a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes." However that may...

...minutest details of narrative or description rest on authentic documents or on personal observation. Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...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,...

...American literature: for historians the New Englander's inspiration has an undying quality. Parkman wrote: Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...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,...

...views on the preparation necessary for such work. "Faithfulness to the truth of history," he wrote, "involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. . . . The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time," and this he did,...

...temperament all his microscopic industry would have availed him but little. To use his own words, " Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...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,...

...of the Alliance of Baptists A/on Nee/y Francis Parkman once wrote that being truthful in the writing 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," Parkman said, "and yet the narrative, taken...

...purposes, then Parkman has a place and a value. Parkman himself saw his histories as his own creation. "Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...however patient and scrupulous, into special facts," he wrote in his introduction to Pioneers of France. "Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness,...

...0-8166-2867-x (pb : acid-free paper) I. Title. PS3564.O5624P38 1996 967497 813'.S4— dc20 For Glenn With Love Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however faithful and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness,...

...poor idea. This is what Francis Parkman said in a book called Pioneers of France in the New World: Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research... [into] facts. Such facts ¡nay be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken...

...general spirit in wMch he worked is clearly set forth in these golden words : "Faithfulness to the troth 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,...