| Goronwy Owen - 1876 - 332 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 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 prejudice... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 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 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... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 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 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... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 454 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 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... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 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 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... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 600 pages
...generally prevails, that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. 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 prejudice... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 pages
...prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Our calmer judgement will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race : but in the estimate of honour we should learn to value the gifts of Nature above those of fortune... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 pages
...prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Our calmer judgement will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race : but in the estimate of honour we should learn to value the gifts of Nature above those of fortune... | |
| Henry O'Brien - 1898 - 692 pages
...generally 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...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... | |
| 1908 - 604 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 ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but reason herself will respect the prejudices... | |
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