 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 Seiten
...prevails," says Gibbon, " 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... | |
 | Ruth Hairston Early - 1920 - 402 Seiten
...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... | |
 | George William Logan - 1923 - 86 Seiten
...minds of men. We seem to have liverl in the persons of our forefathers — it is the labour and the reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal...years may be allotted to an individual, but we step forward. beyond death, with such hopes as Religion and Philosophy will suggest — and we fill up the... | |
 | 1926 - 130 Seiten
...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 idol longevity. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 Seiten
...dreaming. "Our imagination," he wrote in the autobiography as he set out to uncover his ancestral origins, "is always active to enlarge the narrow circle in which Nature has confined us" (M, 3). In the Decline and Fall, Gibbon strove to enlarge the narrow circle of our confined experience... | |
 | Beatrice Gottlieb - 1994 - 350 Seiten
...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."24 It was a terrible threat... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - 2002 - 556 Seiten
...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 ; our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy... | |
 | Roy Porter - 2004 - 600 Seiten
...and the recognition of one's wider place in time and space, within the grand scheme of things: 194 Our imagination is always active to enlarge the narrow circle in which Nature has confined us. Fifty or an hundred years may be alotted to an individual; but we stretch forwards beyond death with such hopes... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - 2007 - 537 Seiten
...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 ; our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy... | |
 | University of St. Andrews - 1898 - 610 Seiten
...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...years may be allotted to an individual, but we step forward beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy will suggest, and we fill up the silent... | |
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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. 
