 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 1794 - 518 pages
...admiration and respecl. Man and his works are fleeting. His art, however, is able to construct monuments far more permanent than the narrow span of his own existence...life and his labours must equally be measured as a passing moment. The pyramids of Egypt, built two thousand years beM 4 fore fore Christ, * were the... | |
 | James Whiteside - 1849 - 370 pages
...remained to us of the buildings of the imperial times. " The art of man is able to construct monuments far more permanent than the narrow span of his own existence,...labours must equally be measured as a fleeting moment ;" A just and beautiful reflection of the historian. The ecclesiastical Rome of the middle ages was... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1851 - 694 pages
...And, IV. The domestic quarrels of the Romans. I. The art of man is able to construct monuments far more permanent than the narrow span of his own existence...monuments, like himself, are perishable and frail ; and 6 Liber de Mirabilibus Romae, ex Registro Nicolai Cardinalis de ArragoniS, in Bibliotheca St. Isidori... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 628 pages
...And, IV. The domestic quarrels of the Komans. I. The art of man is able to construct monuments far more permanent than the narrow span of his own existence...duration. As the wonders of ancient days, the pyramids J attracted the curiosity of the ancients ; a hun* The Pere Mabillon (Analecta, torn. iv. p. 602) has... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1872 - 266 pages
...And, IV., The domestic quarrels of the Romans. I. The art of man is able to construct monuments far more permanent than the narrow span of his own existence...duration. As the wonders of ancient days, the pyramids attracted the curiosity of the ancients : a hundred generations, the leaves of autumn, have dropped... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1880 - 662 pages
...And, IV. The domestic quarrels of the Romans. I. The art of man is able to construct monuments far more permanent than the narrow span of his own existence...monuments, like himself, are perishable and frail ; and ' Liber de Mirabilibus Romae, ex Registro Nicolai Cardinalis de Arragonid, in Bibliotheca St. Isidori... | |
 | William Henry Hastings Kelke - 1885 - 332 pages
...5. Ultra-classical Style. Gibbon. Circa AD 1783. " The art of man is able to construct monuments far more permanent than the narrow span of his own existence;...duration. As the wonders of ancient days, the pyramids attracted the curiosity of the ancients; a hundred generations, the leaves of autumn, have dropped... | |
 | Illinois State Bar Association - 1887 - 414 pages
...inseparable. In societate civili aut lex ant vis valet. The art of man has constructed monuments far more permanent than the narrow span of his own existence...in the boundless annals of time, his life and his labors must equally be measured as a fleeting moment. As the wonders of antiquity the pyramids attracted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1899 - 660 pages
...And, IV. The domestic quarrels of the Romans. I. The art of man is able to construct monuments far more permanent than the narrow span of his own existence...monuments, like himself, are perishable and frail; and • Liber de Mirabilibus Romse, ex Registro Nicolai Cardinalis de Arragonia, in Bibliothecft St. Isidori... | |
 | 1901 - 634 pages
...like himself, are perishable and frail ; and in the boundless annals of time his life and his labors must equally be measured as a fleeting moment. Of...duration. As the wonders of ancient days, the Pyramids attracted the curiosity of the ancients : a hundred generations, the leaves of autumn, have dropped... | |
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I. The art of man is able to construct monuments far more permanent than the narrow span of his own existence: yet these monuments, like himself, are perishable and frail; and in the boundless annals of time his life and his labours must equally be measured... 
