| Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 440 páginas
...have been successively propagated ; they can never be lost. We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race.p • In the ninth... | |
| David Irving - 1821 - 336 páginas
...have been successively propagated ; they can never be lost. We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race. History of the Roman... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 páginas
...have been successively propagated ; they can never be lost. We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the * It is certain, however strange, that many nations have been ignorant of the use of fire.... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick - 1836 - 274 páginas
...favourable .opinions of human nature, and still he says, — " We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge) and, perhaps, the virtue, of the human race." He need not have... | |
| 412 páginas
..." I readily acquiesce," says Gibbon, the celebrated historian, "I readily acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue of the human race." " It is," says MrM'Culloch,... | |
| David Urquhart - 1853 - 524 páginas
...may learn from the example of Russia, with a proportion of improvement in the arts of peace and fell policy ! they themselves must deserve a name amongst...short years had thus sufficed to plant in Spain the fulerum of Faction, hitherto unknown ; the levers were to be worked from afar, by what process it will... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 458 páginas
...have been successively propagated ; they can never be lost. We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world has increased and still increases the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race.15 11 It is certain,... | |
| William Edward Baxter - 1860 - 264 páginas
...shall not be left in doubt as to the fact of progress, or refuse to acquiesce in Gibbon's pleasing conclusion, " that every age of the world has increased and still increases, the real wealth, — the happiness, the knowledge, and the virtue of the human race." Amidst the decay of empires... | |
| Henry C. Pedder - 1874 - 200 páginas
...which induced so high an authority as Gibbon to remark : " We may, therefore, acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion that, every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race."| I " necline and... | |
| John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 416 páginas
...have been successively propagated, they can never be lost. We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue of the human race. — Gibbon. CICERO,... | |
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