 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...tend to aggravate the reproach and shame of a degenerate people. They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the...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, and... | |
 | Thomas Thornton - Turkey - 1807 - 502 pages
...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 - Turkey - 1807 - 484 pages
...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1807 - 492 pages
...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 - Turkey - 1809 - 520 pages
...Gre*k*J exalt,, the dignity, or promote the happiness .of mankind, who held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the...had created and improved that sacred patrimony-^'," and have since lain, " vanquished and weltering," through the long space of three hundred and fifty... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1811 - 406 pages
...degenerate people. They held in their lifelesshaudsthe riches of their fathers, without inheritingthe spirit which had created and improved that sacred...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 conversant... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...tend to aggravate the reproach and shame of a degenerate people. They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the...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 of her... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1827 - 574 pages
...tend to aggravate the reproach and shame of a degenerate people. They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1829 - 482 pages
...spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony ; they read, they praised, they complied, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of...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, and... | |
 | George Waddington - Church history - 1831 - 794 pages
...models, the servility with which they copied without daring to emulate — though it be true that ' in the revolution of ten centuries not a single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind, not a single idea added to the speculative systems of antiquity' — yet was... | |
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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.... 
