 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...forsakes him. Thus he opens his slight Memoir in the following strain : 'A lively desire of knowing and of merant t We seem <o have lived in the persons of our forefathers : it is the labour and reward of vanity to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 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 labor and reward of vanity to extend... | |
 | Angus Macdonald - 1885 - 176 pages
...beautifully discussed this natural principle of mankind. He says : " 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... | |
 | George Brown Goode - 1887 - 472 pages
...failed to preserve their history and connections. THIRTEENTH GENERATION. 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. . . . The satirist may laugh, the philosopher... | |
 | 1891 - 928 pages
...SESSIONS. MALTA, July 18, 1889. FAMILY HISTORY SKETCHES. THE MAXWELL FAMILY. " A LIVELY desire of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally prevails...influence of some common principle in the minds of men. The knowledge of our own family from a remote period will always be esteemed as an abstract remembrance,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pages
...eagerly, that he was determined to publish them in his lifetime. — S. 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 - 1891 - 456 pages
...was determined to publish them in his lifetime. — S. . . . '. . . 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 - 1891 - 454 pages
...eagerly, that he was determined to publish them in his lifetime. — S. 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... | |
 | 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
...John Lloyd Warden Page. London, 1893. ' A LIVELY desire,' says Gibbon, ' of knowing and recording j\ our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must...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... | |
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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. 
