 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...than the offspring of a man of genius, whose writings will instruct or delight the latest posterity. The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the most...illustrious in the world. After a painful ascent of sight or ten centuries, our barons and princes of Europe are lost in the darkness of the middle ages... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...than the offspring of a man of genius, whose writings will instruct or delight the latest posterity. The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the most...have maintained above two thousand two hundred years their peaceful honours and perpetual succession. The chief of the family is still revered by the sovereign... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...than the offspring of a man of genius, whose writings will instruct or delight the latest posterity. The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the most illustrious in tbe world. After a painful ascent of eight or ten centuries, our barons and princes of Europe are lost... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...than the offspring of a man of genius, whose writings will instruct or delight the latest posterity. The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the most...maintained, above two thousand two hundred years, their peaceful honours and perpetual succession. The chief of the family is still revered, by the sovereign... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Historians - 1839 - 496 pages
...than the offspring of a man of genius, whose writings will instruct or delight the latest posterity. The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the most...of the empire of China, the posterity of Confucius (1) have maintained, above two thousand two hundred years, their peaceful honours and perpetual succession.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Literature - 1840 - 382 pages
...than the offspring of a man of genius, whose writings will instruct or delight the latest posterity. The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the most...of the empire of China, the posterity of Confucius (l) have maintained, above two thousand two hundred years, their peaceful honours and perpetual succession.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...than the offspring of a man of genius, whose writings will instruct or deliglit the latest posterity. The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the most...of the empire of China, the posterity of Confucius (1) have maintained, above two thousand two hundred years, their peaceful honours and perpetual succession.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1843 - 614 pages
...bitterest censure upon this fashion of our age. "The family of Confucius," are the words of Gibbon, " ie, in my opinion, the most illustrious in the world....but, in the vast equality of the empire of China, the family of Confucius have maintained above two thousand two hundred and twenty years their peaceful... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...than the offspring of a man of genius, whose writings will instruct or delight the latest posterity. The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the most...maintained, above two thousand two hundred years, their peaceful honours and perpetual succession. The chief of the family is still revered, by the.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...than the offspring of a man of genius, whose writings will instruct or delight the latest posterity. The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the most...maintained, above two thousand two hundred years, their peaceful honours and perpetual succession. The chief of the family is still revered, by the sovereign... | |
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The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the most illustrious in the world. After a painful ascent of eight or ten centuries, our barons and princes of Europe are lost in the darkness of the middle ages; but, in the vast equality of the empire of China,... 
