 | John Bartlett - 1903 - 1188 strani
..." Speech in the Virginia Contention, March, 1775. EDWARD GIBBON. 1737-1794. The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very...register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.1 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776). Chap. Hi. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - 1904 - 500 strani
...L'Ingdnu, ch. 10. — History is little else than a picture of crime and misfortune. Gibbon (ch. 3) says: "History, which is, indeed, little more than the register...the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." 1401. L'homme absurde est celui qui ne change jamais. AM Barthele'my, Ma Justification (1832). —... | |
 | 1906 - 810 strani
...he heard the hisses change to cheers, TOM TAYLOR, Abraham Lincoln, st, 13 History, — History ,,, is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind, GIBBON, Deeline and Fall of the Roman Empire, iii Hit, — A hit, a very palpable hit, — SHAKESPEARE,... | |
 | 1861 - 592 strani
...the reign of the two glorious Antonines, because, as he justly and sarcastically adds, " history is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." The reign of the "second Numa" is in every respect the reverse; and consequently the historian thought... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1906 - 494 strani
...difficulties in the way of its execution they had no conception. History to them, as to Gibbon, was ' little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind 2.' Before the onward march of Reason the institutions, the customs, .and the habits that centuries... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1906 - 480 strani
...essential and most suggestive characteristic of the " Decline and Fal1." " And who regarded history as "little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind" (see below, p. 98). THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE CHAPTER I The Extent and... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 strani
...the Great would have his secretary read history to him, he would Bay, " Bring me my liar." History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — б ¿boon. History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 strani
...Great would have Ыя secretary read history to him, he would Bay, " Bring me my liar." History is he peculiar vividness of the impressions they produce. — Let reason be the rule — (ribbon. History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that... | |
 | Caleb Williams Saleeby - 1909 - 426 strani
...of history.2 If history be, as nearly all historians have conceived it, and as Gibbon defined it, " little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind," it is an empty and contemptible 1 This chapter contains the substance of the author's Friday evening... | |
 | Algernon Cecil - 1909 - 328 strani
...experienced a more complacent satisfaction in exposing mean motives and low aims. "History," he thought, "was little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." 4 It was a low estimate, and it drew its penalty behind it. Incidentally, as we have seen, he had to... | |
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His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history; which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. 
