 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 810 pages
...raise themselves to reputation by writing histories.— JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1751, The Rambler, No. 122. History, which is, indeed, little more than the register...of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — GIBBON, EDWARD, 1776, History of the Decline and Fall o) the Roman Empire. Now an historian is... | |
 | Stephen Paget - Bacteriology - 1914 - 198 pages
...DECEMBER 27, 1822 DIED SEPTEMBER 28, 1896 44363 r EDITOR'S PREFACE GENERAL history, says Gibbon, " is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." In some respects this is true also as regards the history of medicine, in which a knowledge of the past... | |
 | Henry Baerlein - 1914 - 108 pages
...collected facts he brings to bear his taste, his inclination. Accept the words of Gibbon, that history is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind — included in that little more is the historian's well-known human weakness which makes the work... | |
 | Andrew Reid Cowan - Civilization - 1914 - 350 pages
...horizons, flew at each other's throats in a fashion which justifies Gibbon in saying that history is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.1 Let us discriminate, however, and try briefly to pick out what may be considered as " cross-sections... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - American essays - 1915 - 482 pages
...passages. The opinion of a great historian on history always possesses interest. History, wrote Gibbon, is "little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Again, "Wars and the administration of public affairs are the principal subjects of history." And the... | |
 | Arthur Schopenhauer - Conduct of life - 1915 - 324 pages
...the progressive achievements of the intellect, humanity is none the happier, and history remains " little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." Nor can it he said that the old theological basis of ethics, with its other-worldly standpoint, has... | |
 | John Milton Berdan, John Richie Schultz, Hewette Elwell Joyce - American essays - 1915 - 480 pages
...passages. The opinion of a great historian on history always possesses interest. History, wrote Gibbon, is "little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." Again, "Wars and the administration of public affairs are the principal subjects of history." And the... | |
 | 1917 - 1434 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1917 - 404 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1917 - 404 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
