 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...absorbed by the reflections, as the meat sometimes is by the fat. — Hare. The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very...of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Gibbon. We find but few historians of all ages, who have been diligent enough in their search for... | |
 | 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 770
...Numa could only prevent a few neighbouring villages from plundering each other's harvests. Antoninus diffused order and tranquillity over the greatest...of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — GIBBON. 2. Write in French an account of Marco Polo. 3. Translate with brief notes — (a) Les... | |
 | Philip Hugh Dalbiac - 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 526
...History is Philosophy teaching by examples." BOLINGBROKE. On the Study and Use of History, Letter II. " History, which is indeed little more than the register...the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." GIBBON. Deeline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Ck. III. " (It became a proverb when what ought to be... | |
 | David Schley Schaff - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 48
...with this principle as its key, we can have little sympathy with Mr. Gibbon's saying, that history "is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." ture we define to be a development." Then he shows at length that every development must have a "created... | |
 | 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 880
...Blackwood's Magazine. THE BRITISH RECORD IN CHINA. BY ALEXIS KRAUSSE. HISTORY, according to Gibbon, is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Whatever the truth of this aphorism in the abstract, it is unquestionably applicable to the record... | |
 | William Henry Wheeler - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 228
...carefully. 2. Write from dictation. 1. King's misdeeds cannot be hid in clay. — WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 2. History, which is, indeed, little more than the register...of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — EDWARD GIBBON. 3. I saw an uneasy change in Mr. Micawber, which sat lightly on him, as if his new... | |
 | Winston Churchill - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...railways, and canals, to recount, will remember the splendid sentence of Gibbon, that history is " little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind " ; and he will rejoice that, after many troubles, peace and prosperity came back to the Republic of... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...railways, and canals, to recount, will remember the splendid sentence of Gibbon, that history is " little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind " ; and he will rejoice that, after many troubles, the Lauranian people had learned to conduct their... | |
 | George Boxall - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...of writing. He probably did not like to trust himself with Johnson." 3 But Gibbon himself said : " History, which is, indeed, little more than the register...of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." 4 Perhaps he agreed, practically at least, with the doctor. Lord Macaulay thought Johnson too severe,... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 784
...governors I What wonder that the poor steal, and bloated sensualists ravish I Gibbon considers history indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. History's tale as given is by far too woeful. It tells not the whole truth. It holds up to us chiefly... | |
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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. 
