 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 pages
...systems of antiquity, and a succession of pa- CHAP. tient disciples became in their turn the dogmatic xLL teachers of the next servile generation. Not a single...and unpresuming simplicity; but the orators, most eloquent in their own conceit, are the farthest removed from the models whom they affect to emulate.... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1831 - 750 pages
...the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity. Not a single composition of history, philosophy or...original fancy, or even of successful imitation." " Of the writings of antiquity," says the saine author, " many that existed in the twelfth century... | |
 | Royal Robbins - World geography - 1833 - 676 pages
...been added to the speculative systems of antiquity. Not a single composition of history, philoso phy or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the...original fancy, or even of successful imitation." " Of the writings of antiquity," says the same author, "many that existed in the twelfth century are... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1837 - 732 pages
...composition of history, philosoEhy or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the intrinsic eauties of style or sentiment, of original fancy, or even of successful imitation." "Of the writings of antiquity," says the same author, " many that existed in the twelfth century are... | |
 | Royal Robbins - 1838 - 728 pages
...the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity. Not a single composition of history, philosophy or...original fancy, or even of successful imitation." " Of the writings of antiquity," says the same author, "many that existed in the twelfth century are... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1839 - 754 pages
...the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity. Not a single composition of history, philosophy or...original fancy, or even of successful imitation." "Of the writings of antiquity," says the same author, " many that existed in the twelfth century are... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1840 - 734 pages
...arms, and the overturning of the empire, could not but have given a shock to learning and the arts. phy or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the...original fancy, or even of successful imitation." " Of the writings of antiquity," says the same author, " many that existed in the twelfth century are... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1846 - 726 pages
...been added to the speculative systems of antiquity. Not a single composition of history, philoso phy or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the...original fancy, or even of successful imitation." " Of the writings of antiquity," says the same author, " many that existed in the twelfth century are... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1848 - 728 pages
...arms, and the overturning of the empire, could not but have given a shock to learning and the arts. phy or literature, has been saved from oblivion by the...original fancy, or even of successful imitation." "Of the writings of antiquity," says the same author, " many that existed in the twelfth century are... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1849 - 732 pages
...the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity. Not a single composition of history, philosophy or...original fancy, or even of successful imitation." "Of the writings of antiquity," says the same author, "many that existed in the twelfth century are... | |
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They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action.... 
