 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1807 - 574 pages
...interest arc a vindictive and implacable fury will be generated, in spite of " History," says Gibbon, " is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind :" bat these crimes, follies, and misfortunes, are as little to be ascribed to Philosophy as to the... | |
 | Joseph von Aschbach - Visigoths - 1827 - 408 pages
...is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history ; which ¡я, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ®п'ефеп!апЬ unb Statten ber SBarbareí cntge« geneilten ober vrielmeljr [фон barin »erfutifeii... | |
 | Selina Bunbury - 1828 - 372 pages
...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. In private life he was an amiable as well as amoral man. The native simplicity of his mind was a strangerto... | |
 | 1840 - 502 pages
...historian, " marked hy 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 шипkind." " It is agreed hy all," says Xiphilin, " that Antoninus was a good and mild prince, who... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...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. In private life he was an amiable, as well as a good man. The native simplicity of his virtue was a... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 544 pages
...reign is marked liy the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history ; which i* indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Giblxm's first volume was published in 1776, and Voltaire's fngeuii in 1767. In the latter we find... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 528 pages
...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." Gibbon's first volume was published in 1776, and Voltaire's liigenii in 1767. In the latter we find... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - English language - 1852 - 380 pages
...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. In private life, he was an amiable, as well as a good man. He enjoyed with moderation the conveniences... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...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. In private life he was an amiable as well as a good man. The native simplicity of his virtue was a... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - English language - 1857 - 342 pages
...the Study of Words. Gibbon has a striking observation on the nature of history, which he describes as, " Little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." This seems to have been adopted from Voltaire, who says in one of his prose works : — " En effet,... | |
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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. 
