 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.  The Tuftonian - Page 1371900Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | John Fiske - 1902 - 568 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...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,... | |
 | Francis Parkman - History - 1902 - 598 pages
...But it must be borne in mind that " faithfulness to the truth of history " as Parkman once wrote, " 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,... | |
 | Henry Dwight Sedgwick - 1904 - 376 pages
...dictionary ; to such readers a page or two must be addressed. In the preface to the " Pioneers " Parkman says : — Faithfulness to the truth of history involves...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... | |
 | American literature - 1904 - 582 pages
...book-shop; and more than this the "seeking to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time, " for "faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...however patient and scrupulous, into special facts." I have sat on the site of old Fort St. Louis and noted the accuracy of every detail of Parkman's description... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - Authorship - 1911 - 444 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 and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and still the narrative, taken as a whole,... | |
 | EDWARD GAYLORD ROURNE - 1913 - 346 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... | |
 | Rollo Walter Brown, Nathaniel Waring Barnes - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1913 - 400 pages
...often disregarded. As Parkman says in his Introduction to the Pioneers of France in the New World:1 " 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,... | |
 | Authorship - 1915 - 284 pages
...France " the historian's need to vitalize his facts if they are to speak true to readers of a later day. "Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research," says Parkman, " however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with... | |
 | Richard Joseph Cooke - Bible - 1926 - 162 pages
...later spread out full grown before us on the pages of history. For as the historian, Parkman, observes: Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far...however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be... | |
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