 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...author shall be removed beyond the reach of criticism or ridicule. A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers; it is the labour and... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 372 pages
...in this eloquent, philosophical, and able writer's memoirs of bimsr If, " a lively desire of knowmf and recording our ancestors so generally prevails,...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men, — •* seem to have lived in the persons of our fore-fathers. — Our calmer... | |
 | 1820 - 344 pages
...laughter, entered into the diversion, and became extremely sprightly and entertaining. PRIDE OF ANCESTRY. A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers: it is the labour and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...expressed a determination of publishing them in his lifetime. VOL. I. A \A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the lahour and... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...fxpressed a determination of publishing them in his lifetime, vol.. I. A A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 882 pages
...author shall be removed beyond the reach of criticism or ridicule.* A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...author shall be removed beyond the reach of criticism or ridicule.* A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...reach of criticism or ridicule.* A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so genenfly prevails, that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers; it is the labour and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pages
...among loose papers. Mr. Gibbon, in his communications with me on B A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...written from oblivion. — M. in Gibbon's own clear and elaborate hand. A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and... | |
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A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. 
