The perfect historian is he in whose work the character and spirit of an age is exhibited in miniature. He relates no fact, he attributes no expression to his characters, which is not authenticated by sufficient testimony. But by judicious selection,... The Works of Walter Bagehot: With Memoirs by R. H. Hutton - หน้า 80 โดย Walter Bagehot - 1891 มุมมองทั้งเล่ม -
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