 | William Hewett - 1849 - 124 pages
...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...vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity, and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth by associating ourselves to the authors of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...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...confined us. Fifty or an hundred years may be allotted to an individual ; but we step forward beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy will suggest... | |
 | Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - Colnbrook (England) - 1862 - 350 pages
...names he would not willingly let die — for we seem to live in the persons of our forefathers ; and it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity, remarks the historian of the Decline and Fall of Rome. To this end he referred his pedigree to the... | |
 | John Edwin Cussans - Heraldry - 1866 - 148 pages
...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...vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Biography & Autobiography - 1868 - 426 pages
...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...lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our imagination is always active... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1868 - 434 pages
...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...lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our imagination is always active... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1869 - 462 pages
...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...confined us. Fifty or an hundred years may be allotted to an individual, but we step forward beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy wiD suggest;... | |
 | George William Logan - Charleston (S.C.) - 1874 - 58 pages
...A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally prevails that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds...persons of our forefathers, — it is the labour and the reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our imagination is always active to... | |
 | United States - 1873 - 350 pages
...A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors so generally prevails that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men. We seemed to have lived in the persons of our forefathers. It is the labor and reward of vanity to extend... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 pages
...principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal...narrow circle in which nature has confined us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual ; but we step forward beyond death with such hopes... | |
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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. 
