 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 810 стор.
...raise themselves to reputation by writing histories.— JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1751, The Rambler, No. 122. History, which is, indeed, little more than the register...of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — GIBBON, EDWARD, 1776, History of the Decline and Fall o) the Roman Empire. Now an historian is... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 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... | |
 | Maude Morrison Frank - 1911 - 216 стор.
...farewell. 16 And thus he bore without abuse The grand old name of gentleman. 17 The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history. 18 Over my head his arm he flung Against the world. 19 And the thoughts of men are widen'd by the process... | |
 | Hugh George Rawlinson - 1913 - 272 стор.
...of the Buddhist emperors. We may say, as Gibbon said of a famous Roman monarch, that " His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few...indeed little more than the register of the crimes, the follies, and misfortune of mankind." After his conversion he became a lay disciple ; four years... | |
 | Stephen Paget - 1914 - 198 стор.
...DECEMBER 27, 1822 DIED SEPTEMBER 28, 1896 44363 r EDITOR'S PREFACE GENERAL history, says Gibbon, " is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." In some respects this is true also as regards the history of medicine, in which a knowledge of the past... | |
 | Henry Baerlein - 1914 - 108 стор.
...collected facts he brings to bear his taste, his inclination. Accept the words of Gibbon, that history is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind — included in that little more is the historian's well-known human weakness which makes the work... | |
 | Andrew Reid Cowan - 1914 - 350 стор.
...horizons, flew at each other's throats in a fashion which justifies Gibbon in saying that history is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.1 Let us discriminate, however, and try briefly to pick out what may be considered as " cross-sections... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 482 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... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - 1915 - 480 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... | |
 | Arthur Schopenhauer - 1915 - 324 стор.
...the progressive achievements of the intellect, humanity is none the happier, and history remains " little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." Nor can it he said that the old theological basis of ethics, with its other-worldly standpoint, has... | |
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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. 
