 | Rosamond McKitterick, Roland Quinault - 1997 - Liczba stron: 56
...auspices of the Royal Historical Society, Gibbon's phrases at the end of chapter 33 seemed especially apt: We imperceptibly advance from youth to age without...revolutions. But if the interval between two memorable eras could be instantly annihilated; if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of two hundred years,... | |
 | J. G. A. Pocock - 2005 - Liczba stron: 552
...found asking this question.53 (IV) 'In our larger experience of history,' Gibbon wrote at a later date, 'the imagination is accustomed, by a perpetual series of causes and effects, to unite the most distant revolutions.'54 It is possible that this is not quite how the ancient historians operated. They could... | |
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This easy and universal belief, so expressive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without observing the gradual, but incessant change of human affairs ; and even... 
