 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1796 - 316 стор.
...hiftorian : " The merit of difcovery has too often been ftained with avarice and cruelty ; an honourable exception is due to the virtue of our own times and country. The voyages undertaken, by command of his prefent Majefty, were infpired by the pure and generous love... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1796 - 298 стор.
...hiflorian : " The merit of difcovery has too often been ftained with avarice and cruelty ; an honourable exception is due to the virtue of our own times and country. The voyages undertaken, by command of his prefent Majefty, were infpired by the pure and generous love... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 стор.
...Sicily into monstrous giants. happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race *. * The merit of discovery has too often been stained...voyages, successively undertaken by the command of his Majesty, (George III.) were inspired by the pure and generous love of science and of mankind. The same... | |
 | Jeremiah Whitaker Newman - 1838 - 388 стор.
...an honourable exception is due to the virtue of our own times and country. The voyages undertaken by command of his present majesty, were inspired by the pure and generous love of science and mankind; adapting his benefactions to the different stages of society, he has founded a school for... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 458 стор.
...fearful and credulous sailors who transformed the cannibals of Italy and Sicily into monstrous giants. 14 The merit of discovery has too often been stained...science and of mankind. The same prince, adapting his benefactions to the different stages of society, has founded a school of painting in his capital,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 672 стор.
...fearful and credulous sailors, who transformed the cannibals of Italy and Sicily into monstrous giants. " The merit of discovery has too often been stained...communication of disease and prejudice. A singular exception u doe to the virtue of our own times and country. The fire great voyages, successively undertaken by... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 680 стор.
...Sicily into monstrous giants. 11 The merit of discovery has too often been stained with QTvio*. enulty, and fanaticism ; and the intercourse of nations has...communication of disease and prejudice. A singular exception w Ine to the virtue of our own times and country. The fire great roy ages, successiTely undertaken... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 576 стор.
...increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human ace. 16 "The merit of discovery has too often been stained...science and of mankind. The same prince, adapting his benefactions to the different stages of society, has founded a school of painting in his capital,... | |
 | Peter Gay - 1988 - 260 стор.
...in some way. And so Gibbon modifies his hopeful conclusion with a footnote in which he reflects that "the merit of discovery has too often been stained...produced the communication of disease and prejudice."" In the midst of his paean to progress, the ironist is as alert as ever. 14 Gibbon, Decline and Fall... | |
 | Jeremy Black - 2000 - 350 стор.
...the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue of the human race'. However, he added a perceptive footnote: 'The merit of discovery has too often been stained...produced the communication of disease and prejudice' (IV. 168-9). Yet, despite his earlier contrast of the situation in Scotland in the first century AD,... | |
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The merit of discovery has too often been stained with avarice, cruelty, and fanaticism ; and the intercourse of nations has produced the communication of disease and prejudice. A singular exception is due to the virtue of our own times and country. The... 
