 The satirist" may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason herself will respect the prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind.  The Living Age - Page 2821907Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate, than to suppress, the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher...have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Wherever the distinction of birth is allowed to form a superior order in the state, education and example... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1847 - 636 pages
...existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher...have been consecrated by the experience of mankind." I believe, therefore, that the expression of some ideas, which seem calculated to augment our ancestral... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...rather tend to moderate, than to suppress, the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist 2 may laugh, the philosopher may preach, but Reason...have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Few there are who can sincerely despise in others an advantage of which they are secretly ambitious... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1907 - 876 pages
...historian, that ' our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher...question of real interest may, indeed, be limited to an endeavour to ascertain to what extent the ' prejudices ' in question are well founded, or what advantages,... | |
 | George Seton - 1863 - 648 pages
...remarks, that " our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher...habits which have been consecrated by the experience of mankind."3 In speaking of Her1 See Lockhart's Life of Scott, of Llandaff in 1782— died 1816chapters... | |
 | John Edwin Cussans - 1866 - 148 pages
...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,...have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Few there are who can seriously despise in others an advantage of which they are secretly ambitious... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 426 pages
...existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher...have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Few there are who can sincerely despise in others an advantage of which they are secretly ambitious... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1868 - 434 pages
...existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher...prejudices and habits which have been consecrated by the cxpcrience of mankind. Few there are who can sincerely despise in others an advantage of which they... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 pages
...existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate, than to suppress, the pride of an ancient and worthy race. The satirist may laugh, the philosopher...have been consecrated by the experience of mankind. Wherever the distinction of birth is allowed to form a superior order in the state, education and example... | |
 | George William Logan - 1874 - 58 pages
...existence. Our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than to suppress the pride of our ancient and worthy race. ***** " The satirist may laugh, the...have been consecrated by the experience of mankind." ******* — Gibbon's Autobiography. SACRAMENTO: RECORD BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFFICE. 1874. . 7/ IT... | |
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