 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 566 pages
...passage for all those who feel that " lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors," which " so generally prevails, that it must depend on the...influence of some common principle in the minds of men." " Remember from whom you sprang," exclaimed John Hancock, when he proposed a general Colonial Congress.... | |
 | John Edwin Cussans - 1866 - 148 pages
...of Heraldry. Gibbon, in his Autobiography, very justly remarks : ' 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 pages
...His kind providence, which lead me to the means I used and gave "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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 pages
...His kind providence, which lead me to the means I used and gave "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 - 1869 - 462 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...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 extend... | |
 | 1873 - 350 pages
...at it in others." Gibbon, in his autobiography, very justly remarks : " A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally prevails...influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seemed to have lived in the persons of our forefathers. It is the labor and reward of vanity to... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - 1874 - 136 pages
...Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. THE historian Gibbon has remarked that " a lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally prevails,...influence of some common principle in the minds of men." To this we are probably to refer the inquisitiveness that leads individuals to the investigation of... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - 1874 - 112 pages
...Congress, at Washington. PREFACE. THE historian Gibbon has remarked that " a lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally prevails,...influence of some common principle in the minds of men." To this we are probably to refer the inquisitiveness that leads individuals to the investigation of... | |
 | George William Logan - 1874 - 58 pages
...HISTORICAL A RECORD OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. " A lively desire 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 the reward of vanity... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 pages
...His kind providence, which lead me to, the means I used and gave "A lively desire of knowing and uf 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... | |
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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. 
