 | Charles Reemelin - 1881 - 670 pagine
...enjoyed the thought, that it would move on after his own final departure. His quiet remark: that " the satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach,...have been consecrated by the experience of mankind," is a key to much of his conduct. He comprehended particularly, that all men, and his countrymen especially,... | |
 | Angus Macdonald - 1885 - 176 pagine
...existence. " Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The Satirist may laugh, the Philosopher...habits which have been consecrated by the experience of ages. " Whenever the distinction of birth is allowed to form a superior order in the state, education... | |
 | George Brown Goode - 1887 - 472 pagine
...persons of our forefathers. . . . The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach ; but reason it-self will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. F.DWAHD GIBBON : Autobiography. THE PRINCE EDWARD (i(JOI)ES. 47. SAMl'EL GOODE, of Prince Edward Co.,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pagine
...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...have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Wherever the distinction of birth is allowed to form a superior order in the State, education and example... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 454 pagine
...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...have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Wherever the distinction of birth is allowed to form a superior order in the State, education and example... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pagine
...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...have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Wherever the distinction of birth is allowed to form a superior order in the State, education and example... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 600 pagine
...minds of men. 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 and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind.' It was in this spirit... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 pagine
...peruse with warmer curiosity the life of an hero from whom his name and blood were lineally derived.] The Satirist may laugh, the Philosopher may preach...have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Our calmer judgement will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 pagine
...peruse with warmer curiosity the life of an hero from whom his name and blood were lineally derived.] The Satirist may laugh, the Philosopher may preach...have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Our calmer judgement will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy... | |
 | 1908 - 604 pagine
...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...founded, or what advantages, if any, descent from ancestorp of physical and intellectual capability is calculated to afford. The question is one of no... | |
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The satirist" may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. 
