 | Annah Walker Robinson Watson - Families of royal descent - 1910 - 642 pages
...powers, and enforce by law the preservation of family records. Gibbon, the great historian, declares that "a lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...influence of some common principle in the minds of men." Along with the earnest desire to know and honor our ancestors should exist an interest in and appreciation... | |
 | Cornelia Cochrane Barclay Barclay - 1915 - 88 pages
...those buried in St. Mark's Churchyard in the Barclay Vault . 76 Pedigree of de Berkeley of CoUairnie 77 "A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must depend on some common principle of the minds of men." GIBBON \ OUR BRANCH OF BARCLAYS EARLY ENGLISH BARCLAYS... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Church history - 1916 - 1006 pages
...A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors " so generally prevails," says Gibbon, " that it must depend on " the influence of some common...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... | |
 | Ruth Hairston Early - Reference - 1920 - 402 pages
...CADET SAMUEL HENRY EARLY JR., from a portrait. DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF CAPTAIN SAMUEL HENRY EARLY. "A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...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... | |
 | George William Logan - Logan family - 1923 - 86 pages
...RECORD OF The Logan Family OF CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA BY GEORGE WILLIAM LOGAN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA. "A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have liverl in the persons of our forefathers — it is the labour and the reward of vanity to extend the... | |
 | Hamilton (Ont.) - 1926 - 130 pages
...forefathers of the oldtime, who did and dared." "Gibbon, in his Autobiography, very justly remarks : "A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this idol longevity. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher... | |
 | Beatrice Gottlieb - Social Science - 1994 - 350 pages
...memory. Edward Gibbon said, in the cool tones of the Enlightenment, "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."24 It was a terrible threat... | |
 | David Porter - History - 2001 - 324 pages
...forebears. As he turns his probing gaze inward, he ponders the appeal of genealogy on a more personal scale. "A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally prevails," he proposes in the opening paragraph, "that it must depend on the influence of some common principle... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - Art - 2002 - 556 pages
...filling to a certain level with soil. iv Round Towers of Atlantis THE ROUND TOWERS, tfC. CHAPTER I. " A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - History - 2007 - 537 pages
...nature of our first parents' downfal. • — from Chapter XVII THE ROUND TOWERS, fc. CHAPTER I. " A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy... | |
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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. 
