 | John Meredith Read - 1897 - 640 pages
...of knowing and of recording our ancestors 1 Original autograph letter in the author's collections. so generally prevails, that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and... | |
 | John Meredith Read - 1897 - 586 pages
...knowing and of recording our ancestors ' Original autograph letter in the author's collections. BO generally prevails, that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and... | |
 | Henry O'Brien - 1898 - 692 pages
...BLOCK-BOOK . . 482 MEDALS OF CHRIST, FOUND AT ISLAND OF AN-OI.F.SKA AND AT I THE ROUND TOWERS, CHAPTEK I. " A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; our calmer judgment... | |
 | Henry Martyn Burt - 1898 - 222 pages
...family his ancestors derived their descent. V. PARSONS GENEALOGIES.* EDITED BY ALBERT ROSS PARSONS. " A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds <>f men. We seem to have lived in the person of our forefathers; our calmer judgment will... | |
 | Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn - 1898 - 692 pages
...Gibbon has no sneer for a love of ancestry. "A lively desire," he says in his Memoir of my own Life, "of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and... | |
 | Alexander Dundas Ogilvy Wedderburn - 1898 - 684 pages
...Gibbon has no sneer for a love of ancestry. "A lively desire," he says in his Memoir of my <nun Life, "of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...dissemble. The last introduction, a disconnected fragment found among Gibbon's papers, reads as follows : 1 A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must depend upon the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. Our imagination is always active to... | |
 | Robert Seton - 1899 - 486 pages
...blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things. — SHIRLEV. GIBBON says in his Autobiography: "A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men"; and I am strongly persuaded that a long line of distinguished and patriotic forefathers... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 pages
...determined to publish them in kis A/ftim.— SHEFFIELD. [For the 1 A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and... | |
 | Anne Simons Deas - 1909 - 312 pages
...length of the story; and I know not how better to apologize than in the words of the great historian. "A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers. * * • Fifty or a hundred... | |
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A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. 
