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«History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| About:
History
| Keywords:
follies, misfortunes, register, registered, registering, registers, The Register
«Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommendation of this personal narrative.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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narrative, narratives, recommendation, recommendations, sole, Truth The, unblushing
«The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.»
«The ecclesiastical writers, who, in the heat of religious faction, are apt to despise the profane virtues of sincerity and moderation.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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apt, ecclesiastical, faction, factions, heat, moderation, profane, profaning, sincerity
«Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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buries, cities, empires, proudest, spares, vicissitude, vicissitudes
«Style is the image of character.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
«I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
«The theologians may indulge the pleasing task of describing religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian [read: journalist] He must discover the inevitable mixture of error and corruption which she contracted in a long residence upon earth, among a weak and degenerate race of beings.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
«Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.»
«I am indeed rich, since my income is superior to my expenses, and my expense is equal to my wishes.»
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