| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1788 - 738 pages
...man, endowed with the fame faculties, but with a longer meafure of exiftence, would caft down a fmile of pity and contempt on the crimes and follies of human ambition, fo eager, in a narrow fpae, to grafp at a precarious and fhort-lived enjoyment. It is thus that the... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1788 - 738 pages
...man, endowed with the fame faculties, but with a longer meafure of exiftence, would caft down a fmile of pity and contempt on the crimes and follies of human ambition, fo eager, in a narrow fpae, to grafp at a precarious and fhort-lived enjoyment. It is thus that the... | |
| 1788 - 678 pages
...roan, endowed with the fame faculties, but with a longer meafure of exiftence, would call down a fmile of pity and contempt on the crimes and follies of human ambition, fo eager, in a narrow (pan, to grafp at a precarious and ftiort-Iived enjoyment. It is thus that the... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 488 pages
...the purple : the means of their elevation were base, and their end was often contemptible or tragic. A being of the nature of man, endowed with the same...ambition, so eager, in a narrow span, to grasp at a precarious and short-lived enjoyment. It is thus that the experience of history exalts and enlarges... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1806 - 526 pages
...the purple ; the means of their elevation were base, and their end was often contemptible or tragic. A being of the nature of man, endowed \ / with the...pity and contempt on the crimes and follies of human ambiuon, so eager, in a narrow span, to grasp at a precarious and short-lived enjoyment. It is thus... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 488 pages
...of their elevation were base, and their end was often contemptible or tragic. A being of the natura of man, endowed with the same faculties, but with...ambition, so eager, in a narrow span, to grasp at a precarious and short-lived enjoyment. It is thus that the experience of history exalts and enlarges... | |
| 1829 - 632 pages
...the nature of man," says an elegant historian, at the close of his account of the Byzantine princes, "endowed with the same faculties, but with a longer...ambition, so eager, in a narrow span, to grasp at a precarious and short-lived enjoyment. In a composition of some days, in a perusal of some hours, 600... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 528 pages
...the same faculties, but with a longer measure of existence, would cast down a smile of pity and CHAP, contempt on the crimes and follies of human ambition, so eager, in a narrow span, to grasp at a precarious and short-lived enjoyment. It is thus that the experience of history exalts and enlarges... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 540 pages
...the purple; the means of their elevation were base, and their end was often contemptible or tragic. A being of the nature of man, endowed with the same...• ambition, so eager, in a narrow span, to grasp at.a precarious and short-lived enjoyment. It is thus that the experience of history exalts and enlarges... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 542 pages
...purple : the means of their elevation XLIV - were base, and their end was often contemptible or tragic. A being of the nature of man, endowed with the same...ambition, so eager in a narrow span to grasp at a precarious and shortlived enjoyment. It is thus that the experience of history exalts and enlarges... | |
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