 | Michael J. McClymond - Religion - 1998 - 207 pages
...hue. Narration Drama and Discernment in History of Redemption liiSTORY," ACCORDING TO Edward Gibbon, "is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." Another eminent representative of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, said that "history is just the portrayal... | |
 | Anthony D. Marley - 1998 - 188 pages
...proclaimed. It is also, in part, as Edward Gibbon pointed out in his study of the decline and fall of Rome, "little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." 30 From this cyclic vantage point, the horrific effects on man of new war technologies are hardly a... | |
 | Dale L. Walker - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 324 pages
...July 1, 1898, below Kettle Hill." discover the keenness of Edward Gibbon's remark that "History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind," and it is a fertile breeding ground for all the great constants of historical mystery. In the Old West,... | |
 | Mieke Bal, Bryan Gonzales - Social Science - 1999 - 422 pages
...story. Rome in the second century AD, writes Gibbon, "is marked by the rare advantage of furnishing few materials for history; which is, indeed, little...of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind" (Gibbon 1787-94: 1: 102). Ovid's negative characterization of the Golden Age repeats itself here in... | |
 | Johan Hendrik Jacob Van Der Pot - Philosophy - 1999 - 1020 pages
...im ersten Band (1776) von "The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire": "history .... is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind" (ch. 3; Ausg. 1840, 3l)1. Auch Anatole France (Pseud. von Jacques Anatole Thibault) ist hier zu erwähnen.... | |
 | Peter Cosgrove - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 300 pages
...he also famously pays Bayle the compliment of plagiarizing from him the apophthegm that history "is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind" (DF, 1:84), and in his footnotes the narrator occasionally takes malicious pleasure in reiterating... | |
 | R. Stephen Humphreys - History - 1999 - 324 pages
...caliphate was extremely checkered; at many points it seems, as Edward Gibbon said in a different context, "little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."4 When Muhammad died, it was by no means certain that he would have a single successor, or... | |
 | Philip Thody - History - 2000 - 340 pages
...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that illustrate most vividly Gibbon's contention that history 'is, indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind'. As befits a set of events which took place in Europe, we must seek an explanation for their behaviour... | |
 | Odd Arne Westad - History - 2000 - 402 pages
...history of the Cold War perhaps comes closest to fitting Gibbon's famous definition of history itself as, 'indeed, little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind' 1 - and, this chapter contends, the new evidence that has emerged in recent years from both communist... | |
 | Angela Ward - Comparative law - 1999 - 578 pages
...societies of human beings with all their own particular interests. Edward Gibbon said that history is "little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."9 It is certainly true that any account of European history must include a pathetic story... | |
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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. 
