 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 pages
...His kind providence, which lead me to the means I used and gave "A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails that...lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our imagination is always active... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...forsakes him. Thus he opens his slight Memoir in the following strain : 'A lively desire of knowing and of merant t <o have lived in the persons of our forefathers : it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1877 - 238 pages
...author shall be removed beyond the reach of criticism or ridicule. A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...lived in the persons of our forefathers; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our imagination is always active... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 824 pages
...forsakes him. Thus he opens hir slight Memoir in the following strain: 1 A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...of our forefathers: it is the labour and reward of f vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our imagination is always active to enlarge the... | |
 | John Edwin Cussans - Heraldry - 1882 - 414 pages
...have our revenge by railing at it in others." Gibbon, in his Autobiography, very justly remarks : " A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach; but Reason herself will respect the prejudices... | |
 | Angus Macdonald - 1885 - 176 pages
...beautifully discussed this natural principle of mankind. He says : " A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails that...it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend the period of this ideal longevity. " Our imagination is always active to enlarge the narrow circle in... | |
 | George Brown Goode - 1887 - 472 pages
...record shows, but tradition has failed to preserve their history and connections. THIRTEENTH GENERATION. A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers. . . . The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach ; but reason it-self will respect the prejudices... | |
 | United States - 1891 - 928 pages
...homeward. FRANCIS C. SESSIONS. MALTA, July 18, 1889. FAMILY HISTORY SKETCHES. THE MAXWELL FAMILY. " A LIVELY desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...influence of some common principle in the minds of men. The knowledge of our own family from a remote period will always be esteemed as an abstract remembrance,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1894 - 600 pages
...John Lloyd Warden Page. London, 1893. ' A LIVELY desire,' says Gibbon, ' of knowing and recording j\ our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must...influence of some common principle in the minds of men. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1896 - 466 pages
...ANCESTRY. 417 15. Friendship and society. 16. Voltaire Theatre. 17. The World. 18. Eecall and Estimate. A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...influence of some common principle in the minds of men. Our imagination is always active to enlarge the narrow circle in which Nature has confined us. Fifty... | |
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A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. 
