 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 464 pages
...beyond the sea.* * Valiancy. LETLETTER LXXIX, WE are inattentive to the vicissitudes in human affairs. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without observing the gradual, but incessant change. But, if the interval between two memorable ieras eould be instantly annihilated; if it were possible,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 448 pages
...belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without...is accustomed, by a perpetual series of causes and effectsi to unite the most distant revolutions. But if the interval between two memorable aeras could... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 440 pages
...belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without...if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of two hundred years, to * See Maracci Alcoran. Suraxviii, tom, ii, p. 420-42T, and topa. i, part iv,... | |
 | 1823 - 750 pages
...instant peaceably expired." The historian gives the following reflections on this celebrated legend : " We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without...revolutions. But if the interval between two memorable a;ras be instantly annihilated ; if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of 200 years, to display... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1827 - 542 pages
...belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without...the most distant revolutions. But if the interval bishop of 1'.atnae, in the district of Sarug, and province of Mesopotamia, AD 519, and died AD 52l.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1827 - 414 pages
...so expressive of the " sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the " fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, " without...and even in our larger experience of history, the ima" gination is accustomed, by a perpetual series of causes and ef" fects, to unite the most distant... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without...if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of two hundred years, to display the new world to the eyes of a spectator, who still retained a lively... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 pages
...and even in our larger experience of history, the imagination, is accustomed by a perpetual scries of causes and effects, to unite the most distant revolutions....if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of two hundred years, to display the new world to the eyes of a spectator, who still retained a lively... | |
 | James Service - 1834 - 162 pages
...instant peaceably expired." The historian gives the following reflections on this celebrated legend: — "We imperceptibly advance from youth to age without...revolutions. But if the interval between two memorable eras be instantly annihilated ; if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of 200 years, to display... | |
 | 1836 - 352 pages
...belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without...if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of two hundred years, to display the new world to the eyes of the spectator, who still retained a lively... | |
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This easy and universal belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without observing the gradual, but incessant, change of human affairs, and, even... 
