1 Each historian traces, to some extent, the particular feature which pleases him amid this pell-mell.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES 2 The historian has, in this case, the evident right to sum up the whole.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES 3 The historian of manners and ideas has no less austere a mission than the historian of events.
4 True history being a mixture of all things, the true historian mingles in everything.
5 The compression of history produces conciseness in the historian.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 6 There is here a sort of delicacy of the divine justice, hesitating to let loose upon the illustrious usurper the formidable historian, sparing Caesar Tacitus, and according extenuating circumstances to genius.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 7 The facts which we are about to relate belong to that dramatic and living reality, which the historian sometimes neglects for lack of time and space.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER 8 Napoleon's historian Thiers, like other of his historians, trying to justify his hero says that he was drawn to the walls of Moscow against his will.
9 There is no one in Russian literature now, from schoolboy essayist to learned historian, who does not throw his little stone at Alexander for things he did wrong at this period of his reign.
10 The answers given by this kind of historian to the question of what force causes events to happen are satisfactory only as long as there is but one historian to each event.
11 One historian says that an event was produced by Napoleon's power, another that it was produced by Alexander's, a third that it was due to the power of some other person.
12 Each historian, according to his view of what constitutes a nation's progress, looks for these conditions in the greatness, wealth, freedom, or enlightenment of citizens of France or some other country.
13 The little that remains to their historian to relate, is told in few and simple words.
14 So says my historian, at least.
15 In the heath's barrenness to the farmer lay its fertility to the historian.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country