 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
 | Francis Parkman - Canada - 1880 - 506 pages
...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,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1886 - 568 pages
...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. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole,... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1889 - 572 pages
...animate them with the life of the past, and, so far as might be, clothe the skeleton with flt:sh. . . . 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,... | |
 | 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 and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and still 10 HISTORICAL BRIEFS. the narrative,... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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...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 - 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... | |
 | Charles Haight Farnham - Historians - 1901 - 448 pages
...with his theme. The general spirit in which he worked is clearly set forth in these golden 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,... | |
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