 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...individual, but we step forwards beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy will suggest; and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth,...suppress, the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satyrist may laugh, the philosopher may preach; but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...individual; but we step forward beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy will suggest; and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth,...suppress, the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satyrist may laugh, the philosopher may preach; but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...individual, but we step forwards beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy will suggest; and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth,...moderate, than to suppress, the pride of an ancient and worth j race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach; but Reason herself will respect the... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 820 pages
...common principle in the minds of men, — we seem to have lived in the penons of our fore-fathers, — Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than...suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satyrist may laugh, the philosopher m»y preach, but reason herself, will respect the prejudice* and... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - 1819 - 372 pages
...principle in the minds of men, — •* seem to have lived in the persons of our fore-fathers. — Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy face. The satyrist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but reason herself, will respect the prejudices... | |
 | 1820 - 344 pages
...step forward beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy On Ancestry. mil suggest ; and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth,...ourselves to the authors of our existence. Our calmer judgement will rather tend to moderate than to suppress, the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...individual ; but we step forward beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy will suggest; and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth,...philosopher may preach ; but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Few .there are who... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...individual ; hut we step forward heyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy will suggest ; and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth,...philosopher may preach ; but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Few there are who can... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...individual, but we step forwards beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy will suggest; and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth,...ourselves to the authors of our existence. Our calmer judgments will rather tend to moderate, than to suppress, the pride of an ancient and worthy race.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...individual, but we step forwards beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy will suggest ; and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth,...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... | |
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Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach ; but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the... 
