...neglect of unworthy reformers." In another place, he eloquently adds : " The, losses of history are irretrievable: when the productions of fancy or science have been swept away, new poets may invent, and ucw philosophers may reason; but if the inscription of a single fact be once obliterated, it can never...

...from written authority, or oral tradition. " The losses of history (Mr. Gibbon forcibly observes) are indeed irretrievable ; when the productions of fancy...have been swept away, new poets may invent, and new philosopher» may reason ; but if the inscription of a single fact be once obliterated, it can never...

...older Celtic records of Ireland a blank for ever. " The losses of history, indeed," says Gibbon, "are irretrievable; when the productions of fancy or science...inscription of a single fact be once obliterated, it cannot be restored by the united efforts of genius and industry. The consideration of our past losses...

...older Celtic records of Ireland a blank for ever. " The losses of history, indeed," says Gibbon, " are irretrievable ; when the productions of fancy or science...inscription of a single fact be once obliterated, it cannot be restored by the united efforts of genius and industry. The consideration of our past losses...

...older Celtic records of Ireland a blank for ever. " The losses of history, indeed," says Gibbon, "are irretrievable; when the productions of fancy or science...inscription of a single fact be once obliterated, it cannot be restored by the united efforts of genius and industry. The consideration of our past losses...

...truth of the tradition. CHAPTER II. REMARKS ON BEDE's ACCOUNT OF THE SYNODS. "THE losses of history are indeed irretrievable. When the productions of fancy...never be restored by the united efforts of genius or industry." So writes Gibbon, one of the greatest of historians. The truth of his assertion cannot...

...expedient may be inevitable, but it is one that must not be regarded lightly. As Gibbon has truly said, ' if the inscription of a single fact be once obliterated,...by the united efforts of genius and industry.' The risk of such an accident is not an imaginary one, for the Act of 1877 apparently makes no provision...

...thousand years' had conserved the records of the past. The losses of history are indeed irretrievable. If the inscription of a single fact be once obliterated,...restored by the united efforts of genius and industry Instead of condemning the monkish historians (as they are contemptuously styled) silently to moulder...