 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1907 - 876 pages
...the value of good descent to be in full sympathy with the declaration of the great historian, that ' 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... | |
 | George Seton - 1863 - 648 pages
...and Gibbon. Referring" to the sentiment of birth, the historian of the Roman Empire remarks, that " 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 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 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 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 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 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 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... | |
 | George William Logan - 1874 - 58 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 to suppress the pride of our ancient and worthy race. ***** " The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 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 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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 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 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...the silent vacancy that precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our existence. race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices... | |
 | Goronwy Owen - 1876 - 350 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 to suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but reason herself will respect the prejudice... | |
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