 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 460 pages
...history, " The Alexiad " (ed. by Reifferscheid in Teubner series), covers the period AD 1069-1118. alike incapable of thought and action. In the revolution...single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single composition of history, philosophy, or literature, has... | |
 | Henry Donald Maurice Spence-Jones - 1906 - 486 pages
...lifeless hands the riches of their fathers," alluding, of course, to the glorious literature of Greece, " without inheriting the spirit which had created and...single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 610 pages
...Byzantine Empire, literally applies as well to the arts as to literature. " They held," he says, " in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers,...souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action." Of art, equally as of literature, it might still further be asserted, that, " in the revolution of... | |
 | Jonathan Wright - 1914 - 372 pages
...notwithstanding all these things, learning did not send forth any new shoots, and Gibbon sums the matter up thus: "They read, they praised, they compiled, but their...souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action." Finally, their political existence sank to the level of their civilization. The walls of Constantinople... | |
 | Hugh Elliot - 1922 - 278 pages
...led cloistered lives, devoted exclusively and entirely to study. But what did they ever achieve ? " They read, they praised, they compiled, but their...souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action." Excessive reading clearly confers no power of thought ; often it does just the reverse, but what perhaps... | |
 | Rutherford Hamilton Towner - 1923 - 312 pages
...happiness." "But these advantages only tend to aggravate the reproach and shame of a degenerate people. They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers,...single discovery was made to exalt the dignity or promote the happiness of mankind. Not a single idea has been added to the speculative systems of antiquity,... | |
 | Ashley Brown - 1928 - 250 pages
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They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action.... 
