 | Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 602 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 - 1875 - 812 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must depend on lled this heart o1 mine ; There the saftest sweets...sever, Then the stroke, oh, how severe ! Friends, a hundred years may be allotted to an individual, but we step forwards beyond death with such hopes... | |
 | Goronwy Owen - 1876 - 332 pages
...noble bloods." Gibbon, too, writes : — " We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers. Our imagination is always active to enlarge the narrow circle in which nature has confined us. We fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our... | |
 | Goronwy Owen - English letters - 1876 - 350 pages
...noble bloods." Gibbon, too, writes: — " We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers. Our imagination is always active to enlarge the narrow circle in which nature has confined us. We fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to the authors of our... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must depend on and the t <o have lived in the persons of our forefathers : it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1877 - 238 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 824 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...of our forefathers: it is the labour and reward of f vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. Our imagination is always active to enlarge the... | |
 | John Edwin Cussans - Heraldry - 1882 - 414 pages
...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...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 - Printers - 1884 - 598 pages
...in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labor and reward of vanity to extend the term of thit ideal longevity. Our imagination is always active...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. 
