 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...the silent vacancy that precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than...philosopher may preach, but reason herself will respect the prejudice and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. GIBBON. O SLEEP ! thou... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...the silent vacancy that precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate,...philosopher may preach ; but Reason herself will respect the preju* This passage is found in one only of the six sketches, and in that which seems to have been... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...silent vacancy that precedes our Irirth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate,...philosopher may preach ; but Reason herself will respect the preju• This passage is found in one only of the six sketches, and in that which seems to l»w been... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 882 pages
...precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our existence. Our calmer judgment wdl rather tend to moderate, than to suppress, the pride...philosopher may preach ; but Reason herself will respect the preju* This passage is found in one only of the six sketches, and in that which seems to hare been,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...sketches of the life, have wished to rescue from obliwritten in Gibbon's own clear and vion. — M. pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist...habits, which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Few there are who can sincerely despise in others, an advantage of which they are secretly... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 386 pages
...the silent vacancy that precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate,...habits, which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Few there are who can sincerely despise in others, an advantage of which they are secretly... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...birth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our existence. Our calmer judgment will ralher lend to moderate, than to suppress, the pride of an ancient...habits, which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Few there are who can sincerely despise in others, an advantage of which they are secretly... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 382 pages
...the silent vacancy that precedes our hirth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate,...but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and hahits, which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Few there are who can sincerely despise... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1844 - 312 pages
...descended." " Our calmer judgment," says the historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, " will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the...habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. The institution of hereditary rank has been maintained," he proceeds to state, " for the wisest... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1847 - 636 pages
...the silent vacancy that precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than...habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind." I believe, therefore, that the expression of some ideas, which seem calculated to augment... | |
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The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach ; but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. 
