 | 1816 - 572 pages
...neglect of unworthy reformers." In another place, he eloquently adds : " The, losses of history are irretrievable: when the productions of fancy or science have been swept away, new poets may invent, and ucw philosophers may reason; but if the inscription of a single fact be once obliterated, it can never... | |
 | William Shaw Mason - Tullaroan (Ireland : Parish) - 1819 - 372 pages
...from written authority, or oral tradition. " The losses of history (Mr. Gibbon forcibly observes) are indeed irretrievable ; when the productions of fancy...have been swept away, new poets may invent, and new philosopher» may reason ; but if the inscription of a single fact be once obliterated, it can never... | |
 | Ireland - 1851 - 782 pages
...older Celtic records of Ireland a blank for ever. " The losses of history, indeed," says Gibbon, "are irretrievable; when the productions of fancy or science...inscription of a single fact be once obliterated, it cannot be restored by the united efforts of genius and industry. The consideration of our past losses... | |
 | 1857 - 626 pages
...older Celtic records of Ireland a blank for ever. " The losses of history, indeed," says Gibbon, " are irretrievable ; when the productions of fancy or science...inscription of a single fact be once obliterated, it cannot be restored by the united efforts of genius and industry. The consideration of our past losses... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - Annals of the Four Masters - 1861 - 436 pages
...older Celtic records of Ireland a blank for ever. " The losses of history, indeed," says Gibbon, "are irretrievable; when the productions of fancy or science...inscription of a single fact be once obliterated, it cannot be restored by the united efforts of genius and industry. The consideration of our past losses... | |
 | James Johnston - 1898 - 146 pages
...truth of the tradition. CHAPTER II. REMARKS ON BEDE's ACCOUNT OF THE SYNODS. "THE losses of history are indeed irretrievable. When the productions of fancy...never be restored by the united efforts of genius or industry." So writes Gibbon, one of the greatest of historians. The truth of his assertion cannot... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1909 - 1374 pages
...expedient may be inevitable, but it is one that must not be regarded lightly. As Gibbon has truly said, ' if the inscription of a single fact be once obliterated,...by the united efforts of genius and industry.' The risk of such an accident is not an imaginary one, for the Act of 1877 apparently makes no provision... | |
 | 194 pages
...thousand years' had conserved the records of the past. The losses of history are indeed irretrievable. If the inscription of a single fact be once obliterated,...restored by the united efforts of genius and industry Instead of condemning the monkish historians (as they are contemptuously styled) silently to moulder... | |
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The losses of history, indeed," says Gibbon, "are irretrievable; when the productions of fancy or science have been swept away, new poets may invent, and new philosophers may reason ; but, if the inscription of a single fact be once obliterated, it cannot... 