 | Edward Budge - 1851 - 322 стор.
...Antoninus diffused order and tranquillity over the greatest part of the civilized world. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history, which, it has been well observed, is indeed " little more than a register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 стор.
...harvests. Antoninus diffused order and tranquillity over the greater part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few...the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. In private life, he was an amiable, as well as a good man. He enjoyed with moderation the conveniences... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 стор.
...harvests. Antoninus diffused order and tranquillity over the greatest part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few...the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. In private life he was an amiable as well as a good man. The native simplicity of his virtue was a stranger... | |
 | Henry Hegart Breen - 1857 - 336 стор.
...Study of Words. Gibbon has a striking observation on the nature of history, which he describes as, " Little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." This seems to have been adopted from Voltaire, who says in one of his prose works : — " En effet,... | |
 | 1861 - 594 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... | |
 | Dawson William Turner - 1861 - 124 стор.
...PIUS, AD 138. • His reign, without doubt the happiest period of the Roman empire.' — a. rushing very few materials for history ; which is, indeed,...the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. In private life, he was an amiable as well as a good man. The native simplicity of his virtue was a stranger... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1861 - 600 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... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 стор.
...influence of general principles ; habits of calm specu* Gibbon observes " that the reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few...the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Decline and Fall, Chap. III. lation, of foresight, of deliberative and providing wisdom ; these are... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 стор.
...the prouder for it ; I like to be despised. The Hypocrite. Act v. Sc. I. EDWARD GIBBON. 1737-1794. History, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.2 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Ch. iii. A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and... | |
 | John Matheson - 1870 - 594 стор.
...shipped to India, would encircle many worlds like our own ! CHAPTER XI. A CHAPTER OF VARIETIES. History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — GIBBON. Here shall the Press the people's rights maintain, Unawed by influence and unbribed by... | |
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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. 
