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History has its foreground and its background, and it is principally in the management of its perspective that one artist differs from another. Some events must be represented on a large scale, others diminished; the great majority will be lost in the dimness of the horizon, and a general idea of their joint effect will be given by a few slight touches.
History has its foreground and its background, and it is principally in the management of its perspective that one artist differs from another. Some events must be represented on a large scale, others diminished; the great majority will be lost in the dimness of the horizon, and a general idea of their joint effect will be given by a few slight touches.
Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial
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- Thomas B. Macaulay
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- Approximate author period: c. 1829 AD · industrial
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
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