 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 382 Seiten
...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 the term of this ideal...and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our hirth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 Seiten
...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 the term of this ideal...an hundred years may be allotted to an individual 5 but we step forward beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy will suggest; and we... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - 1840 - 386 Seiten
...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 the term of this ideal...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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...narrow circle in which nature has confined us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual, but we step forwards beyond death with such hopes... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 Seiten
...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...narrow circle in which nature has confined us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual, but we step forwards beyond death with such hopes... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1847 - 636 Seiten
...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 the term of this ideal...narrow circle in which Nature has confined us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual ; but we step forwards beyond death with such hopes... | |
 | William Hewett - 1849 - 124 Seiten
...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 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 - 468 Seiten
...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 the term of this ideal...precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the i This passage is found in one only of the six sketches, and in that which seems to have been the first... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 Seiten
...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 the term of this ideal...precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the 1 This passage is found in one only of the six sketches, and in that which seeing to have been the... | |
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A \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. 
