Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul. Carlyle.

For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history. Shak.

What histories of toil could I declare! Pope.

History piece, a representation in painting, drawing, etc., of any real event, including the actors and the action. -- Natural history, a description and classification of objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses.

Syn. -- Chronicle; annals; relation; narration. -- History, Chronicle, Annals. History is a methodical record of important events which concern a community of men, usually so arranged as to show the connection of causes and effects, to give an analysis of motive and action etc. A chronicle is a record of such events, conforming to the order of time as its distinctive feature. Annals are a chronicle divided up into separate years. By poetic license annals is sometimes used for history.

Justly Cæsar scorns the poet's lays;
It is to history he trusts for praise. Pope.

No more yet of this;
For 't is a chronicle of day by day,
Not a relation for a breakfast. Shak.

Many glorious examples in the annals of our religion. Rogers.