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" If a man, such as we are supposing, should write the history of England, he would assuredly not omit the battles, the sieges, the negotiations, the seditions, the ministerial changes. But with these he would intersperse the details which are the charm... "
Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous - Page 65
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 758 pages
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The Muse of History and the Science of Culture

Robert L. Carneiro - History - 2000 - 328 pages
...way: At Lincoln Cathedral there is a beautiful painted window, which was made by an apprentice out of pieces of glass which had been rejected by his master....has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which may well excite their envy. He has constructed...
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Miscellaneous Essays and Lays of Ancient Rome

Thomas Babington Macaulay - Philosophy - 2005 - 553 pages
...nation. He considers no anecdote, no peculiarity of manner, no familiar saying, as too insignficant for his notice which is not too insignificant to illustrate...has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them in a manner which may well excite their envy. He has constructed...
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Remembering the Year of the French: Irish Folk History and Social Memory

Guy Beiner - History - 2007 - 490 pages
...the nineteenth-century English historian Thomas Babington Macaulay mischievously recounted a parable: At Lincoln Cathedral there is a beautiful painted...superior to every other in the church, that according to tradition, the vanquished artist killed himself from mortification. 30 Recognizing that practitioners...
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the world of man

1890 - 340 pages
...dimensions; and has then departed, thinking that he has seen England. He has, in fact, seen a few public buildings, public men, and public ceremonies. But...has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them in a manner which may well excite their envy. He has constructed...
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The Victorian Review, Volume 6

H. Mortimer Franklyn - 1882 - 802 pages
...picturesque and romantic. " At Lincoln Cathedral," — so runs his own characteristic illustration — " there is a beautiful painted window, which was made...has used those fragments of truth which historians have scornfully thrown behind them, in a manner which miy well excite their envy. He has constructed,...
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Personal Efficiency, Volume 18

Samuel MacClintock - Business - 1928 - 278 pages
...filled with personal student contacts. He tells of one of them here. NA certain cathedral in England there is a beautiful painted window which was made...by his master. It is so far superior to every other window in the church that, according to tradition, the vanquished artist killed himself from mortification....
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