 | Henry O'Brien - 1834 - 578 páginas
...improvement, with a view to a second edition, I very cheerfully court. THE ROUND TOWERS, Sfc. CHAPTER I. •" A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...seem to have lived in the persons of our forefathers ; our calmer judgment will rather tend to moderate than suppress the pride of an ancient and worthy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 412 páginas
...14. Love. 15. Friendship and society. 16. Voltaire Theatre. 17. The World. 1 8. Recall and Estimate. A lively desire of knowing and recording our ancestors...influence of some common principle in the minds of men. Our imagination is always active to enlarge the narrow circle in which Nature has confined us. Fifty... | |
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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. 
