 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 500 pages
...may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itself. We * Gibbon, Decline and Fall, chap. xxiii. imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without observing...if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of two hundred years, to display the new world to the eyes of a spectator who still retained a lively... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1837 - 568 pages
..." 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...and effects, to unite the most distant revolutions, Bot if the interval between two memorable eras could be instantly annihilated ; if it were possible,... | |
 | Fashion - 1843 - 568 pages
...of the fahle itself. We imperceptihly advance from youth to age, without ohserving the gradual, hut incessant, change of human affairs; and even in our...experience of history, the imagination is accustomed, hy a perpetual series of causes and effects, to unite the most distant revolutions. But if the interval... | |
 | Sir Charles Lyell - Geology - 1840 - 506 pages
..." 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...if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of two hundred years, to display the new world to the eyes of a spectator who still retained a lively... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Philosophy of mind - 1843 - 632 pages
...belief, no 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...if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of two hundred years, to display the new world to the eyes of a spectator, who still retained a lively... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...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...most distant revolutions. But if the interval between the two memorable eras could be instantly annihilated ; if it were possible, after a momentary slumber... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - English periodicals - 1844 - 614 pages
...its extensive propagation may be sought for in its inherent beauty. As it has been truly remarked, we imperceptibly advance from youth to age without observing the gradual but incessant changes of human affairs, so, in our larger experience of history, notwithstanding the claims of some... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 410 pages
...series of causes and effects, to unite the most distant revolutions. But if the interval between the two memorable eras could be instantly annihilated...if it were possible, after a momentary slumber of two hundred years, to display the new world to the eyes of a spectator who still retained a lively... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1847 - 666 pages
...belief, 10 eiprcssive of the sense of mankind, may be ascribed to the genuine merit of the fable itaelf. We imperceptibly advance from youth to age, without...imagination, is accustomed by a perpetual series of causes •nd effects, to unite the most distant revolutions. But if the interval between two memorable eras... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...and, even in our larger experience ol history, the imagination is accustomed, by a perpetual serie: of causes and effects, to unite the most distant revolutions But if the interval between the two memorable eras could 'be instantly annihilated ; if it were possible, after a momentary slumber... | |
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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... 
