Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Libros Libros
" A \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. "
Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, Esq - Página 2
por Edward Gibbon - 1825
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

History of the Parish of Wraysbury, Ankerwycke Priory, and Magna Charta ...

Gordon Willoughby James Gyll - 1862 - 350 páginas
...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...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

The Grammar of Heraldry: Containing a Description of All the Principal ...

John Edwin Cussans - 1866 - 150 páginas
...principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevity. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 páginas
...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...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 páginas
...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...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

The Autobiography and Correspondence of Edward Gibbon, the Historian

Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 páginas
...principle in the minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers; it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal...beyond death with such hopes as religion and philosophy wiD suggest; and we fill up the silent vacancy that precedes our birth, by associating ourselves to...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

A Record of the Logan Family of Charleston, South Carolina

George William Logan - 1874 - 60 páginas
...minds of men. We seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers, — it is the labour and the reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal...active to enlarge the narrow circle in which Nature has conf1ned us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual, but we step forward, beyond...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

The Chronotype, Volumen1

1873 - 350 páginas
...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 the term of this ideal longevity. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

Life of Benjamin Franklin, Written by Himself, Volumen1

Benjamin Franklin - 1875 - 812 páginas
...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...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volumen1

Benjamin Franklin, John Bigelow - 1875 - 579 páginas
...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...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro

Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volumen2

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...principle in the minds of men. We seem <o have lived in the persons of our forefathers : it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ....narrow circle in which nature has confined us. Fifty or a hundred years may be allotted to an individual, but we step forwards beyond death with such hopes...
Vista completa - Acerca de este libro




  1. Mi biblioteca
  2. Ayuda
  3. Búsqueda avanzada de libros
  4. Descargar EPUB
  5. Descargar PDF