 | 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...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 reward of vanity to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...me on A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it roust 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 reward of vanity to... | |
 | 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...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 reward of vanity to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 382 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...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 reward of vanity to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 pages
...from oblivion. — M. in Gibbon's own clear and elaborate Jinnd. A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must depend on the influence of somo common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1847 - 636 pages
...philosophic eloge of GIRBON, as given us in his Autobiography. " A lively desire," he wrote, "of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally prevails,...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 reward of vanity to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...have been the first written, and which was laid aside among loose A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...have been the first written, and which was laid aside among lome A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend... | |
 | William Hewett - 1849 - 124 pages
...common interest. • To quote the language of a great historian, " a lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...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 reward of vanity to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...author shall be removed beyond the reach of criticism or ridicule.1 A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...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 reward of vanity to... | |
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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. 
