 I mean, that modern history appears to be not only a step in advance of ancient history, but the last step ; it appears to bear marks of the fulness of time, as if there would be no future history beyond it.  A Summary of Modern History - Page 46by Jules Michelet - 1847 - 403 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Christianity - 1845 - 1036 pages
...well observed, " appears to be not only a step in advance of ancient history, but the last step : that it appears to bear marks of the fulness of time, as if there would be no future history beyond it. ... Everywhere the search has been made, and the report has been received : we have the full amount... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - Great Britain - 1843 - 452 pages
...greater power, so that the German element has been less manifestly predominant." -f" For the last 1800 years, Greece has fed the human intellect ; Rome,...source of law and government, and social civilization." J Having these, among many other authorities,! for the * Dr. Arnold's Inaugural Lecture on the Study... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - Great Britain - 1843 - 452 pages
...greater power, so that the German element has been less manifestly predominant." -f" For the last 1800 years, Greece has fed the human intellect ; Rome,...been the source of law and government, and social civilization."J Having these, among many other authorities,§ for the • Dr. Arnold's Inaugural Lecture... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...was cheerful without levity, and pious without enthusiasm. I have lived fifteen years in solitude. " For the last eighteen hundred years, Greece has fed...has been the source of law and government and social civilisation ; and what neither Greece nor Rome could furnish, the perfection of moral and spiritual... | |
 | Jews - 1848 - 564 pages
...said the above writer, ' appears to be not only a step in advance of ancient history, but the very last step ; it appears to bear marks of the fulness...as if there would be no future history beyond it.' As a commentary upon which it may be observed, that Europe has been for centuries the centre of action,... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 758 pages
...modern history appears to be not only a step in advance of ancient history, but the last step ;" that " it appears to bear marks of the fulness of time, as if there would be no future history beyond it;" he concludes, — " But without any presumptuous confidence, if there be any signs, however uncertain,... | |
 | United States - 1846 - 524 pages
...reality. I mean, that modern history appears to be not only a step in advance of ancient history, bat the last step; it appears to bear marks of the fulness...has been the source of law and government and social civilisation ; and what neither Greece nor Rome could furuish, the perfection of moral and spiritual... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1846 - 550 pages
...this article. " Modern history appears to be not only a step in advance < ancient history, but the last step ; it appears to bear marks of the fulness...intellect ; Rome, taught by Greece and improving upon her teach er, has been the source of law and government and social civilization ; and what neither Greece... | |
 | 1846 - 492 pages
...' I mean, that modern history appears to be not only a step in advance of ancient history, but the last step ; it appears to bear marks of the fulness...as if there would be no future history beyond it. * * * Looking anxiously round the world for any new races which may receive the seed (so to speak)... | |
 | United States - 1846 - 508 pages
...that modern history appears to bo not only я step in advance of ancient history, but the last stop ; it appears to bear marks of the fulness of time, as if there would be no future history bcyoud it. For tho last eighteen hundred years Greece has fed the human intellect; Rome, taught by... | |
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