 | Angela Ward - 1999 - 578 стор.
...societies of human beings with all their own particular interests. Edward Gibbon said that history is "little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."9 It is certainly true that any account of European history must include a pathetic story... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 стор.
...chap. 2, 61-63. 3 Titus Antoninus Pius has been justly denominated a second Numa. . . His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, ... the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Decline and Fall of the Roman... | |
 | Joseph Twadell Shipley - 2001 - 688 стор.
...means rook, rookie, from recruit, was influenced by the bird. "Titus Antoninus Pius. ... His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few...register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind"-Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776), chap. 2. "Quoth the raven,... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 2001 - 1166 стор.
...old proverb says in other words what Gibbon remarked in the Decline and Fall, ch. iii: — History Is, Indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Montesquieu said much the same s— Нишах les peuples dont l'histoire est cnnuyem, The Happy Valley.... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 2001 - 208 стор.
...two, and they were sympathies that Jefferson shared. And when, moreover. Gibbon described history as "indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind," that, too, at least as it pertained to most ancient monarchies and institutional churches, was a sentiment... | |
 | Stephen Miller - 2001 - 226 стор.
...pessimism. "The rage of war," Gibbon says, is "inherent to the human species, . . ." and history is "little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." What can the philosopher — or the philosophical historian — do to prevent the resurgence of man's... | |
 | F. R. Ankersmit - 2001 - 340 стор.
...what Gibbon wishes to avoid. Discussing the reign of Antoninus Pius, Gibbon comments: "His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few...register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."5 The happy days of the empire under the Antonines are thus, so to speak, "lifted out" of... | |
 | David Womersley - 2002 - 472 стор.
...a view of the vices and miseries of mankind', he was echoing Gibbon's famous sentence that history 'is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind'.9a When Priestley went on to explain this common aspect of all history by adducing the fact... | |
 | Philip Allott - 2002 - 448 стор.
...societies of human beings with all their own particular interests. 8.13 Edward Gibbon said that history is 'little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind'. 9 It is certainly true that any account of European history must include a pathetic story of every... | |
 | William F. Gilreath, Phillip A. Laplante - 2003 - 220 стор.
...OISC, or are there other ways? Chapter 7 HISTORICAL REVIEW OF OISC Nothing New Under the Sun History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Edward Gibbon (1 73 7-1 794), English historian and scholar who authored "Decline and Fall of the Roman... | |
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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. 
