 | Winston Churchill - Political fiction - 1899 - 372 pages
...railways, and canals, to recount, will remember the splendid sentence of Gibbon, that history is " little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind " ; and he will rejoice that, after many troubles, peace and prosperity came back to the Republic of... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - English periodicals - 1900 - 524 pages
...railways, and canals, to recount, will remember the splendid sentence of Gibbon, that history is " little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind " ; and he will rejoice that, after many troubles, the Lauranian people had learned to conduct their... | |
 | Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...! Speech in the Viryinia Conzention, March, 1776. EDWARD GIBBON. 1737-1794. The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very...register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.1 Decline and Fall of the Eoman Empire (1776). Chap. Hi. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is... | |
 | George Boxall - Anglo-Saxon race - 1902 - 348 pages
...of writing. He probably did not like to trust himself with Johnson." 3 But Gibbon himself said : " History, which is, indeed, little more than the register...of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." 4 Perhaps he agreed, practically at least, with the doctor. Lord Macaulay thought Johnson too severe,... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - British Columbia - 1902 - 784 pages
...governors I What wonder that the poor steal, and bloated sensualists ravish I Gibbon considers history indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. History's tale as given is by far too woeful. It tells not the whole truth. It holds up to us chiefly... | |
 | Virginia Wales Johnson - Como (Italy) - 1902 - 324 pages
...ecclesiastics, one to the nobility, one to agricultural failure, and one to the waters. " History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind," said Gibbon. Pian di Spagna! Low-trailing mists of heat over stagnant waters, sedgy wastes, and desertion... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1903 - 636 pages
...character in our history. The 1 Perhaps a reminiscence of Gibbon : " His reign (that of Antoninus) is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very...of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind" (Decline and Fall. ch. iv.). * Constitutional History, ch. x. fondness with which a portion of the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1188 pages
..." Speech in the Virginia Contention, March, 1775. EDWARD GIBBON. 1737-1794. The reign of Antoninus is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing very...register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.1 Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776). Chap. Hi. Revenge is profitable, gratitude is... | |
 | William Francis Henry King - Proverbs - 1904 - 500 pages
...L'Ingdnu, ch. 10. — History is little else than a picture of crime and misfortune. Gibbon (ch. 3) says: "History, which is, indeed, little more than the register...the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." 1401. L'homme absurde est celui qui ne change jamais. AM Barthele'my, Ma Justification (1832). —... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 810 pages
...he heard the hisses change to cheers, TOM TAYLOR, Abraham Lincoln, st, 13 History, — History ,,, is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind, GIBBON, Deeline and Fall of the Roman Empire, iii Hit, — A hit, a very palpable hit, — SHAKESPEARE,... | |
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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. 
