...service, though an indireel one. Secondly, however, we may say, these historical novels have taught all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and...ages of the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, state-papers, controversies, and abstractions of men. Not abstractions were they,...

...Carlyle, though with his usual quaintness of style : "We may aay these historical works have taught all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and...writers of history and others till so taught ; that the hy-gone ages of the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, state papers, controversies,...

...service, though an indirect one. Secondly, however, we may say, these historical novels have taught all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and...ages of the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, state-papers, controversies, and abstractions of men. Not abstractions were they,...

...Europe, has been traced, not without reason, to the impulse which proceeded from Abbotsford. Though such is not exactly the source which we might expect to...of history and others, till so taught, — that the bygoue ages of the world were actually filled by living men."1 If, however, the impulse to the pursuit...

...remarked by one of the most acute of modern writers on the subject under consideration, that though not exactly the source which we might expect to give...of the world were actually filled by living men."* 1 Report of the Transactions at the with the series of Annual Transactions ot Annual Meeting of the...

...remarked by one of the most acute of modern writers on the subject under consideration, that though not exactly the source which we might expect to give...as unknown to writers of history and others, till BO taught — that the bygone ages of the world were actually filled by living men."5 1 Report of the...

...Abbotsford ; and the opinion of Thomas Carlyle may be unquestioning!}' quoted, that the author of leaiihoe was the first of modern writers " to teach all men...the bygone ages of the world were actually filled uy living men." An idea of the ways of life and style of living of even the highest classes in ancient...

...civil things of le roman hùtorique, but he does say of Scott's historical novels that they have taught all men this truth, which looks like a truism, and...ages of the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, state-papers, controversies, and abstractions of men. " Not abstractions were they,...

...we may say, these Historical Novels have taught all men this truth, which looks like a truism, arol yet was as good as unknown to writers of history and...ages of the world were actually filled by living men, not by protocols, statepa|x;rs, controversies and abstractions of men. Not abstraction^ were they,...

...Mr. Carlyle ? Who has done so much to apply the lesson which Scott, as he says, first taught us — that the " bygone ages of the world were actually filled by .living men, not by protocols, state-papers, controversies, and abstractions of men ? " If Scott would in old days...