 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1807 - 572 halaman
...interest arc a vindictive and implacable fury will be generated, in spite of " History," says Gibbon, " is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind :" bat these crimes, follies, and misfortunes, are as little to be ascribed to Philosophy as to the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 472 halaman
...could only prevent a few neighbouring villages from plundering each other's harvests. Antoninus (Mused order and tranquillity over the greatest part of the...mankind. In private life, he was an amiable, as well as a good man. The native simplicity of his virtue was a stranger to vanity or affectation. He enjoyed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 halaman
...villages from plundering each other's harvests. Antoninus diffused order and tranquillity over the greater part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare...mankind. In private life, he was an amiable, as well as a good man. The native simplicity of his virtue was a stranger to vanity or affectation. He enjoyed,... | |
 | Joseph von Aschbach - 1827 - 408 halaman
...His reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history ; which ¡я, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ®п'ефеп!апЬ unb Statten ber SBarbareí cntge« geneilten ober vrielmeljr [фон barin »erfutifeii... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 halaman
...Numa could only prevent a few neighbouring villages from plundering each other's harvests. Antoninus diffused order and tranquillity over the greatest...mankind. In private life he was an amiable, as well as a good man. The native simplicity of his virtue was a stranger to vanity or affectation. He enjoyed,... | |
 | 1850 - 524 halaman
...perseverance." Gibbon, Decl. and Fall (Lond. 1838. 8vo.), i. 134.: — '• His (T. Antoninus Pius") reign is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing...the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Gibbon's first volume was published in 1776, and Voltaire's liigenii in 1767. In the latter we find... | |
 | 1850 - 544 halaman
...Pim') reign is marked liy the rare advantage of furnishing very few materials for history ; which i* indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Giblxm's first volume was published in 1776, and Voltaire's fngeuii in 1767. In the latter we find... | |
 | Edward Budge - 1851 - 322 halaman
...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 of...mankind." " In private life he was an amiable, as well as a good man. The native simplicity of his virtue, was a stranger to vanity or affectation. He enjoyed... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 halaman
...villages from plundering each others' harvests. Antoninus diffused order and tranquillity over the greater part of the earth. His reign is marked by the rare...mankind. In private life, he was an amiable, as well as a good man. He enjoyed with moderation the conveniences of his fortune; and the benevolence of his... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 halaman
...Numa could only prevent a few neighbouring villages from plundering each other's harvests. Antoninus diffused order and tranquillity over the greatest...mankind. In private life he was an amiable as well as a good man. The native simplicity of his virtue was a stranger to vanity or affectation. He enjoyed... | |
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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. 
