 | 1917 - 1434 стор.
...sped. ' ' Gibbon, the great English author of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, wrote, "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Voltaire said: "History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes." If those responsible... | |
 | John Morley - 1917 - 404 стор.
...too readily forget the desolating sentence of Gibbon, greatest of literary historians, that history is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Reasons for remembering are only too vivid, but as we pass we have a right to quarrel with the two... | |
 | John Morley - 1917 - 456 стор.
...too readily forget the desolating sentence of Gibbon, greatest of literary historians, that history is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Reasons for remembering are only too vivid, but as we pass we have a right to quarrel with the two... | |
 | Thomas Sharper Knowlson - 1917 - 334 стор.
...classic, is he to have no recognition of merit in that respect ? Again, when Gibbon described history as " little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind," he is said to have been indebted to a phrase of Voltaire : " En effet, 1'histoire n'est que le tableau... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 412 стор.
...readily forget the desolating sentence of Gibbon, greatest of all literary historians, that history is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Reasons for remembering are only too vivid, but in passing we have a right to quarrel with the two... | |
 | John Morley - 1921 - 412 стор.
...readily forget the desolating sentence of Gibbon, greatest of all literary historians, that history is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. Reasons for remembering are only too vivid, but in passing we have a right to quarrel with the two... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 стор.
...(1888-1965) Anglo-American poet, critic. "Little Cidding," pt. 5, Four Quartets (1 942). 12 History ... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. EDWARD GIBBON, (1737-1794) British historian. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch. 3(1776-1788).... | |
 | Edward Albert Shils - 1997 - 416 стор.
...Weimar "system." But why should they know it when all of the past and practically all of the present is "little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." But the similarity is there, and il bespeaks an affatity of outlook. 8. They seem to think so poorly... | |
 | William R. Polk - 2008 - 380 стор.
...would defend themselves and those who would attack, making history, as Edward Gibbon put it, "litde more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.'" As technology improved, walls and other means of defense, as we have seen, became more massive, more... | |
 | William R. Polk - 2008 - 380 стор.
...those who would defend themselves and those who would attack, making history, as Edward Gibbon put it, "little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."1 As technology improved, walls and other means of defense, as we have seen, became more massive,... | |
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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. 
