 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 sidor
...nations. But these advantages only tend to aggravate the reproach and shame of a degenerate people. They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers,...single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity,... | |
 | Thomas Thornton - 1807 - 502 sidor
...or promote !withthe ' ancient the happiness of mankind ; who held in their lifeless hands, G eek*i the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the...which had created and improved that sacred patrimony, "f aud have since lain, " vanquished and weltering," through the long space of three hundred and fifty... | |
 | Thomas Thornton - 1807 - 484 sidor
...the dignity, or promote ^-^ the happiness of mankind ; who held in their lifeless hands, Gredu>ithe riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit...which had created and improved that sacred patrimony, "f and have since Iain, " vanquished and weltering," through the long space of three hundred and fifty... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1807 - 492 sidor
...fhame of a degenerate people. They read, they praifed, they compiled ; but their languid foul feemed alike incapable of thought and action, In the revolution of ten centuries, not a fingle difcovery was made to exalt the dignity, or promote the happinefs of mankind : but the minds... | |
 | Thomas Thornton - 1809 - 520 sidor
...made not a single discovery to Gre*k*J exalt,, the dignity, or promote the happiness .of mankind, who held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers,...had created and improved that sacred patrimony-^'," and have since lain, " vanquished and weltering," through the long space of three hundred and fifty... | |
 | Thomas Thornton - 1809 - 508 sidor
...made not a single discovery to oreeki; exa [t; t ne dignity, or promote the happiness of mankind, who held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which hud created and improved that sacred patrimony^-," and have since lain, " vanquished and weltering,"... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 406 sidor
...degenerate people. They held in their lifelesshaudsthe riches of their fathers, without inheritingthe spirit which had created and improved that sacred...single discovery was made to. exalt the dignity or promote the hapflatterer, may add with truth, y\a'fla* H%M axftllas A»7i«»f«m». The princess was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 sidor
...nations. But these advantages only tend to aggravate the reproach and shame of a degenerate people. They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers,...single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the spe• Anna Comnena may boast... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 574 sidor
...nations. But these advantages only tend to aggravate the reproach and shame of a degenerate people. They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers,...that sacred patrimony : they read, they praised, they still extant in manuscript at Constantinople. Yet such classic studies seem incompatible with the gravity... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1829 - 482 sidor
...spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony ; they read, they praised, they complied, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of...single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity,... | |
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They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action.... 
