 | 1906 - 810 стор.
...he heard the hisses change to cheers, TOM TAYLOR, Abraham Lincoln, st, 13 History, — History ,,, is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind, GIBBON, Deeline and Fall of the Roman Empire, iii Hit, — A hit, a very palpable hit, — SHAKESPEARE,... | |
 | Frederick Pollock - 1906 - 494 стор.
...difficulties in the way of its execution they had no conception. History to them, as to Gibbon, was ' little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind 2.' Before the onward march of Reason the institutions, the customs, .and the habits that centuries... | |
 | 1861 - 592 стор.
...the reign of the two glorious Antonines, because, as he justly and sarcastically adds, " history is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." The reign of the "second Numa" is in every respect the reverse; and consequently the historian thought... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1906 - 480 стор.
...essential and most suggestive characteristic of the " Decline and Fal1." " And who regarded history as "little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind" (see below, p. 98). THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE CHAPTER I The Extent and... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 стор.
...the Great would have his secretary read history to him, he would Bay, " Bring me my liar." History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — б ¿boon. History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 стор.
...Great would have Ыя secretary read history to him, he would Bay, " Bring me my liar." History is he peculiar vividness of the impressions they produce. — Let reason be the rule — (ribbon. History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1909 - 368 стор.
...passages. The opinion of a great historian on history always possesses interest. History, wrote Gibbon, is "little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Again, "Wars and the administration of public affairs are the principal subjects of history." And the... | |
 | Algernon Cecil - 1909 - 328 стор.
...experienced a more complacent satisfaction in exposing mean motives and low aims. "History," he thought, "was little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." 4 It was a low estimate, and it drew its penalty behind it. Incidentally, as we have seen, he had to... | |
 | Edward Douglas Fawcett - 1909 - 484 стор.
...of the human species is made up of little else than crimes and errors," and Gibbon finds history " little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." They are painting the picture in too dark colours, you say. Well, that is, perhaps, the case, but this... | |
 | Caleb Williams Saleeby - 1909 - 426 стор.
...of history.2 If history be, as nearly all historians have conceived it, and as Gibbon defined it, " little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind," it is an empty and contemptible 1 This chapter contains the substance of the author's Friday evening... | |
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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. 
