 | Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn - 1898 - 684 pages
...forefathers ; it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. . . . Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than...suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and... | |
 | Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn - 1898 - 692 pages
...forefathers ; it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. . . . Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than...suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than...suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. But in the estimate of honor we should learn to value the gifts of nature above those of fortune, to... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - 1898 - 692 pages
...on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh ; the philosopher may preach... | |
 | Henry Martyn Burt - 1898 - 222 pages
...on the influence of some common principle in the minds <>f men. We seem to have lived in the person of our forefathers; our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race." (Gibbon's Memoirs.) " The whole conception of Immortality... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 pages
...the silent vacancy that precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate,...suppress, the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh,2 the philosopher may preach ;3 but Reason herself "letter annexed," dated January... | |
 | 1907 - 866 pages
...the value of good descent to be in full sympathy with the declaration of the great historian, that "our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of an ancieiit and worthy race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will... | |
 | Anne Simons Deas - 1909 - 312 pages
...1833-1897 silent vacancy that precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than...suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race." * * " 173 APPENDIX. JOHN BALL'S PAPER. "The following account of the Ball family wrote by John Ball,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 pages
...silent vacancy that percedes " our birth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our exist" ence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate,...suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The sat" irist may laugh, the philosopher may preach ; but reason herself " will respect the prejudices... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - 2002 - 556 pages
...on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh ; the philosopher may preach... | |
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Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach ; but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the... 
