 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 464 Seiten
...beyond the sea.* * Valiancy. LETLETTER LXXIX, WE are inattentive to the vicissitudes in human affairs. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without observing the gradual, but incessant change. But, if the interval between two memorable ieras eould be instantly annihilated; if it were possible,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 446 Seiten
...tradition have been discovered in the remote extremities of Scandinavia ]. This easy and universal belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed...revolutions. But if the interval between two memorable aeras could be instantly annihilated ; if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of two hundred... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 448 Seiten
...tradition have been discovered in the remote extremities of Scandinavia J. This easy and universal belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed...is accustomed, by a perpetual series of causes and effectsi to unite the most distant revolutions. But if the interval between two memorable aeras could... | |
 | 1823 - 750 Seiten
...instant peaceably expired." The historian gives the following reflections on this celebrated legend : " We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without...revolutions. But if the interval between two memorable a;ras be instantly annihilated ; if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of 200 years, to display... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 542 Seiten
...tradition have been discovered in the remote extremities of Scandinavia 0. This easy and universal belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed...the most distant revolutions. But if the interval bishop of 1'.atnae, in the district of Sarug, and province of Mesopotamia, AD 519, and died AD 52l.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 Seiten
...tion have been discovered in the remote extremities of Scandi" navia. This easy and universal belief, so expressive of the " sense of mankind, may be ascribed...and even in our larger experience of history, the ima" gination is accustomed, by a perpetual series of causes and ef" fects, to unite the most distant... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 Seiten
...tradition have been discovered in the remote extremities of Scandinavia. This easy and universal belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed...history, the imagination, is accustomed by a perpetual scries of causes and effects, to unite the most distant revolutions. But if the interval between two... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 568 Seiten
..." This easy and universal belief," observes the philosophical historian of the Decline and Fall, " so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed...and effects, to unite the most distant revolutions, Bot if the interval between two memorable eras could be instantly annihilated ; if it were possible,... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 500 Seiten
..." This easy and universal belief," observes the philosophical historian of the Decline and Fall, " so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We * Gibbon, Decline and Fall, chap. xxiii. imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without observing... | |
 | 1843 - 568 Seiten
...of the fahle itself. We imperceptihly advance from youth to age, without ohserving the gradual, hut incessant, change of human affairs; and even in our...experience of history, the imagination is accustomed, hy a perpetual series of causes and effects, to unite the most distant revolutions. But if the interval... | |
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This easy and universal belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age without observing the gradual, but incessant, change of human affairs ; and even... 
