 | Edward Gibbon - 1817 - 274 pages
...predeceflbrs , they may perhaps confider me not as a contemptible thief, but as an honeft and induftrious manufacturer, who has fairly procured the raw materials , and worked them up with a laudable degree of fkill and fuccefs. II. About two hundred years ago, the court of Rome difcovered that the fyftem which... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...representation of some of the most important facts of ecclesiastical antiquity is supported by the authority or opinion of the most ingenious and learned of the...of science. The grosser legends of the middle ages were abandoned to contempt, but the supremacy and infallibility of two hundred popes, the virtues of... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1913 - 590 pages
...he rebuts with conspicuous success, and courageously upholds his unhesitating plea of not guilty : If my readers are satisfied with the form, the colours,...them up with a laudable degree of skill and success ". The verdict of modern historical criticism has approved his plea. ' If,' writes Bury, ' we take... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 pages
...readers are satisfied with the form, the colors, the new arrangement which I have given to the labors of my predecessors, they may perhaps consider me not...the abuse, of science. The grosser legends of the middleages were abandoned to contempt, but the supremacy and infallibility of two hundred Popes, the... | |
 | 588 pages
...he rebuts with conspicuous success, and courageously upholds his unhesitating plea of not guilty : If my readers are satisfied with the form, the colours,...them up with a laudable degree of skill and success '. The verdict of modern historical criticism has approved his plea. ' If,' writes Bury, ' we take... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - 488 pages
...— he rebuts with conspicuous success, and courageously upholds his unhesitating plea of not guilty: If my readers are satisfied with the form, the colours,...worked them up with a laudable degree of skill and success.1 The verdict of modern historical criticism has approved his plea. " If, " writes Bury, "we... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 pages
...bee, whose materials come from outside himself, unlike the spider who spins his web from his entrails: "If my readers are satisfied with the form, the colours,...them up with a laudable degree of skill and success" (EE, 277). 20. If the roles of Julian and Mahomet express a sense of Gibbon's own dividedness, that... | |
 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 pages
...his polemical Vindication, a brilliant defense of his scholarly integrity against religious critics, "If my readers are satisfied with the form, the colours,...them up with a laudable degree of skill and success" (English Essays 2.77). Historians tend to emphasize the evidentiary basis of the Decline and Fall and... | |
 | Leo Braudy, Bing Professor of English Leo Braudy - 1991 - 334 pages
...arrangement which I have given to the labours of my predecessors, they may perhaps consider me not a contemptible thief, but as an honest and industrious...fairly procured the raw materials, and worked them with a laudable degree of skill and This is not the voice of humanist abstraction but of a writer who... | |
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If my readers are satisfied with the form, the colours, the new arrangement which I have given to the labours of my predecessors, they may perhaps consider me not as a contemptible thief, but as an honest and industrious manufacturer, who has fairly procured... 