 | William Shaw Mason - Tullaroan (Ireland : Parish) - 1819 - 372 pages
...in this eloquent, philosophical, and able writer's memoirs of bimsr If, " a lively desire of knowmf and recording our ancestors so generally prevails,...influence of some common principle in the minds of men, — •* seem to have lived in the persons of our fore-fathers. — Our calmer judgment will rather... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - Ireland - 1819 - 828 pages
...The following passage occurs in this eloquent, philosophical, and able writer's memoirs of himself, "a lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...must depend on the influence of some common principle hi the minds of men, — »«' seem to have lived in the persons of our fore-fathers* — Our calmer... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - Ireland - 1819 - 820 pages
...liimself, " * lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors BO generally prevails, that it most depend on the influence of some common principle in...the minds of men, — we seem to have lived in the penons of our fore-fathers, — Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...expressed a determination of publishing them in his lifetime. VOL. I. A \A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the lahour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our imagination is always,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...author shall be removed beyond the reach of criticism or ridicule. A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...depend on the influence of some common principle in the mind* of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and reward... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 pages
...from oblivion. — M. in Gibbon's own clear and elaborate Jinnd. A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must depend on the influence of somo common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers... | |
 | Asia - 1844 - 688 pages
...principle of our nature which induces us to feel as if we had lived in the persons of our ancestors. It is " the labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity j" and the subject of this memoir, possessing all the advantages of family papers and records, was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...have been the first written, and which was laid aside among lome A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...lived in the persons of our forefathers; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our imagination is always active... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...have been the first written, and which was laid aside among loose A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our imagination is always active... | |
 | William Hewett - 1849 - 124 pages
...common interest. • To quote the language of a great historian, " a lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity, and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth by associating ourselves to the authors of... | |
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A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. 
