 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 464 pàgines
...beyond the sea.* * Valiancy. LETLETTER LXXIX, WE are inattentive to the vicissitudes in human affairs. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without observing the gradual, but incessant change. But, if the interval between two memorable ieras eould be instantly annihilated; if it were possible,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 448 pàgines
...belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without...is accustomed, by a perpetual series of causes and effectsi to unite the most distant revolutions. But if the interval between two memorable aeras could... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 440 pàgines
...belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without...revolutions. But if the interval between two memorable eras could be instantly annihilated; if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of two hundred years,... | |
 | 1823 - 750 pàgines
...the Cavern of the Seven Sleepers ; who bestowed their benediction, related their story, and at the the same instant peaceably expired." The historian...revolutions. But if the interval between two memorable a;ras be instantly annihilated ; if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of 200 years, to display... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 542 pàgines
...belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without...the most distant revolutions. But if the interval bishop of 1'.atnae, in the district of Sarug, and province of Mesopotamia, AD 519, and died AD 52l.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 pàgines
...so expressive of the " sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the " fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, " without...and even in our larger experience of history, the ima" gination is accustomed, by a perpetual series of causes and ef" fects, to unite the most distant... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pàgines
...belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without...revolutions. But if the interval between two memorable eras could be instantly annihilated ; if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of two hundred years,... | |
 | 1836 - 352 pàgines
...belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without...revolutions. But if the interval between two memorable eras could be instantly annihilated ; if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of two hundred years,... | |
 | 1837 - 682 pàgines
...as a summary of my experience, the words of the great historian of the latter ages of the empire : " We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without...revolutions ; but if the interval between two memorable eras could be instantly annihilated ; if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of 200 years, to display... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - 1837 - 500 pàgines
...may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We * Gibbon, Decline and Fall, chap. xxiii. imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without observing...revolutions. But if the interval between two memorable eras could be instantly annihilated ; if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of two hundred years,... | |
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This easy and universal belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without observing the gradual, but incessant change of human affairs ; and even... 
