Modern EssaysJohn Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce Macmillan, 1915 - 448 стор. |
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... Decline and Fall , " says Bagehot , " is not a style in which you can tell the truth . . . . Truth is of various kinds ; grave , solemn , dignified , petty , low , ordinary : and a historian who has to tell the truth must be able to ...
... Decline and Fall , " says Bagehot , " is not a style in which you can tell the truth . . . . Truth is of various kinds ; grave , solemn , dignified , petty , low , ordinary : and a historian who has to tell the truth must be able to ...
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... Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , " - and to - day at any bookstore , you can find copies in endless editions . How wonderful that is ! That a drama or romance should persist through centuries is easily explainable , since the ...
... Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , " - and to - day at any bookstore , you can find copies in endless editions . How wonderful that is ! That a drama or romance should persist through centuries is easily explainable , since the ...
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... Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . " " In my Journal , " wrote Gibbon , " the place and moment of conception are recorded ; the 15th of October , 1764 , in the close of the evening , as I sat musing in the Church of the Franciscan ...
... Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . " " In my Journal , " wrote Gibbon , " the place and moment of conception are recorded ; the 15th of October , 1764 , in the close of the evening , as I sat musing in the Church of the Franciscan ...
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... Decline and Fall , " concludes " that Gibbon is behind date in many details . But in the main things he is still our master , above and beyond date . " 3 His work wins plaudits from those who believe that history in its highest form ...
... Decline and Fall , " concludes " that Gibbon is behind date in many details . But in the main things he is still our master , above and beyond date . " 3 His work wins plaudits from those who believe that history in its highest form ...
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... Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire " has had a life of over one hundred and thirty years , and there is no indi- cation that it will not endure as long as any interest is taken in the study of history . " I have never presumed to ...
... Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire " has had a life of over one hundred and thirty years , and there is no indi- cation that it will not endure as long as any interest is taken in the study of history . " I have never presumed to ...
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Сторінка 216 - Nor thro' the questions men may try, The petty cobwebs we have spun : If e'er when faith had fall'n asleep, I heard a voice ' believe no more ' And heard an ever-breaking shore That tumbled in the Godless deep ; A warmth within the breast would melt The freezing reason's colder part, And like a man in wrath the heart Stood up and answer'd
Сторінка 240 - For, don't you mark ? we're made so that we love First when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see; And so they are better, painted — better to us, Which is the same thing. Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out.
Сторінка 219 - Oh yet we trust that somehow good Will be the final goal of ill, To pangs of nature, sins of will, Defects of doubt, and taints of blood ; That nothing walks with aimless feet ; That not one life shall be destroyed, Or cast as rubbish to the void, When God hath made the pile complete...
Сторінка 36 - A SOFT answer turneth away wrath : but grievous words stir up anger.
Сторінка 278 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Сторінка 364 - We should be wary, therefore, what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books...
Сторінка 413 - And some thro' wavering lights and shadows broke, Rolling a slumbrous sheet of foam below. They saw the gleaming river seaward flow From the inner land : far off, three mountain-tops...
Сторінка 413 - Who gave you your invulnerable life, Your strength, your speed, your fury, and your joy, Unceasing thunder and eternal foam? And who commanded (and the silence came), Here let the billows stiffen, and have rest?
Сторінка 258 - After a sleepless night, I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation.
Сторінка 432 - O that some Minstrel's harp were near, To utter notes of gladness, And chase this silence from the air, That fills my heart with sadness...