 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 382 pages
...ancestors so 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...narrow circle in which Nature has confined us. Fifty or an hundred years may be allotted to an individual ; but we step forward beyond death with such hopes... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...ancestors so 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...narrow circle in which Nature has confined us. Fifty or an hundred years may be allotted to an individual 5 but we step forward beyond death with such hopes... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 386 pages
...ancestors so 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...active to enlarge the narrow circle in which Nature has confmed us. Fifty or an hundred years may be allotted to an individual ; but we step forward beyond... | |
 | 1844 - 688 pages
...principle of our nature which induces us to feel as if we had lived in the persons of our ancestors. It is " the labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity j" and the subject of this memoir, possessing all the advantages of family papers and records, was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...ancestors so 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 ; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our imagination is always active... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...ancestors so 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; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our imagination is always active... | |
 | William Hewett - 1849 - 124 pages
...ancestors so 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...vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity, and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth by associating ourselves to the authors of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...ancestors so 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...narrow circle in which Nature has confined us. Fifty or an hundred years may be allotted to an individual ; but we step forward beyond death with such hopes... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1862 - 350 pages
...names he would not willingly let die — for we seem to live in the persons of our forefathers ; and it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity, remarks the historian of the Decline and Fall of Rome. To this end he referred his pedigree to the... | |
 | John Edwin Cussans - 1866 - 148 pages
...ancestors so 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...vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices... | |
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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. 
