 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 стор.
...turns the giddy wheel around. Altered by Johnson. * Compare Sterne. Page 322. EDWARD GIBBON. 1737-1794. History, which is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.1 Decline and fall of the Roman Empire (177C). Cli. iii. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1883 - 502 стор.
...principal subjects of history (Gibbon, Decline & Fall, 1, 383. London 1875) und wenn demnach History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind (Gibbon 1, 124)'), so kann von einem höheren zwecke der geschichte eigentlich keine rede sein. —... | |
 | George Rawlinson - 1885 - 807 стор.
...repose, in the East as it was in the West—a period having (as our greatest historian observes of it) " the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history," which is, indeed (as he says), "little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." "... | |
 | 1886 - 136 стор.
...love of religion, justice, and peace was the distinguishing character of both." Again ; " His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few...materials for history, which is indeed little more than a register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." The above words apply in every sense... | |
 | Robert Christy - 1887 - 742 стор.
...History is philosophy teaching by examples. Dionysius of Halicarnassus. 3. History repeats itself. 4. History, which is, indeed, little more than the '...of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind. Gibbon, Hoarding. 1. The base wretch who hoards up all he can, Is praised and called a careful man.... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - 1887 - 630 стор.
...little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes. Gibbon (Decline and Fall, ch. 3) says : "... History, •which is, indeed, little more than the...the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." 2803. L'homme est de glace aux vérités, 11 est de feu pour les mensonges. (Fr.) La Font. 9, 6. Where... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1909 - 796 стор.
...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... | |
 | Arthur Howard Galton - 1888 - 368 стор.
...harvests. I 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... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 стор.
...and halcyon days to come. 2464 Garfield : The Province of History. ( Williams Quarterly, June, 1856.) History, which is, indeed, little more than the register...of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. 2465 Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. 1776. History shows that the majority of men who... | |
 | 1889 - 94 стор.
...remarked that almost the whole story of Antoninus was unknown. Gibbon says, "The reign of Antoninus, is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history." Jarvis says, "It is among the extraordinary facts of history that such an Emperor as Antoninus should... | |
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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. 
