 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 510 pages
...manners; however they might incur, by their absurd and excessive superstition, the censure of the laws.1 History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future, theempe°ages, would ill deserve that honourable office, if wardfthe she condescended to plead the... | |
 | Hugh Owen, John Brickdale Blakeway - 1825 - 662 pages
...his literary distinction. We now approach to a transaction which bears harder upon Edward's memory. History, which undertakes to record the transactions...ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants. But while it is her province to judge men without favour,... | |
 | George Wilson Bridges - 1828 - 536 pages
...DISSENSIONS BETWEEN THE LEGISLATIVE BODIES.— ARRIVAL AND DEATH OF SIR WILLIAM THELAWNBY. [AD 1754—1772.] HISTORY, which undertakes to record the transactions...the past for the instruction of future ages, would ill-deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the excuse of tyrants, or to justify... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 566 pages
...supplied. — So "the life of the founder supplies the silence of his written revelation;" (ch. L.) instead of supplies the deficiencies, or speaks when...but he adds, "and cunning," — which is, in fact, cither fraud or the immediate cause of it; and no one can correctly say that fraud is its resource,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1850 - 624 pages
...manners; however they might incur, by their absurd and excessive superstition, the censure of the laws." History, which undertakes to record the transactions...instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honorable office, if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.... | |
 | 1851 - 372 pages
...manners ; however they might incur, by their absurd and excessive superstition, the censure of the laws.* History, which undertakes to record the transactions...ages ; would ill deserve that honourable office, if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution. It must, however,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 pages
...supplied. — So "the life of the founder supplies the silence of his written revelation ;" (ch. L.) instead of supplies the deficiencies, or speaks when...that fraud is its resource, (ch. XLIX.) Sometimes, in qifest of a fine word, he says something which he does not mean. — "If we annihilate the interval... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - 1876 - 184 pages
...fall a victim to power ; but truth, and reason, and liberty, would fall with him. — Bolingbroke. History, which undertakes to record the transactions...ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.- — Gibbon.... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1909 - 950 pages
...subjects of history." And the following cannot fail to recall a similar thought in Tacitus: "History undertakes to record the transactions of the past for the instruction of future ages." Two references to religion under the Pagan empire are always worth repeating. " The various modes of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1897 - 614 pages
...ttte censure of the laws.23 , History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the UM of MM past, for the instruction of future, ages, would ill deserve that honourable office, if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution. It must, however,... | |
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History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution. 
