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Letter "E" » Edward Gibbon Quotes
«Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking,unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
arts, composition, compositions, habits, original, originals, resolved, unformed, unprovided with, unskilled
«I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.»
«My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for all the riches of India.»
«The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.»
«The urgent consideration of the public safety may undoubtedly authorize the violation of every positive law. How far that or any other consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
authorize, authorized, authorizes, authorizing, consideration, dissolve, obligations, operate, Public Safety, undoubtedly, urgent, violation, violations
«The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
magistrate, modes, prevailed, roman, Roman world, The Philosopher, various
«The principles of a free constitution are irrecoverably lost, when the legislative power is nominated by the executive»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| About:
Constitution
| Keywords:
executive, Executive power, legislative, Legislative power, nominate, nominated, nominating
«Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive»
«Of the three Popes, John the Twenty-third was the first victim; he fled and was brought back a prisoner; the most scandalous charges were suppressed; the Vicar of Christ was only accused of piracy, murder, rape, sodomy, and incest»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
accused, fled, incest, murder charge, piracy, popes, prisoner, rape, scandalous, sodomy, suppressed, twenty-third, vicar, vicars, Vicar of Christ, victim
«A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
aspiring, Assemblies, collected, commons, constitutional, enterprise, Martial, nobility, preserving, stubborn, tenacious
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