Gibbon : Edward (1737-94), English historian, whose major work was The History of the Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88).
... thought: "Why not have a go with my most recent work?" A perfect copy had to be prepared in a race against time. So I set about the race and now at last it is over. I have tried to do my best, but the Gibbon and the Panther in the names of the firms concerned are none too happily suggestive to a lifelong lover of Plato. Plato long ago spoke of the difficulty of dealing with the ape and the tiger in man ...
... course, hell], for then I could let you out." 14 (9) From R.B. Sheridan: During the trial of Warren Hastings, Sheridan, who was an M.P., was making one of his speeches when, having observed Gibbon among the audience, he took occasion to refer to "the luminous author of the 'Decline and Fall'." A friend afterwards reproached him for flattering the historian. "Why, what did I say of him?" ...
... have to say anything erotic they put the French word for it, not the English. Take the Decameron . In the English translation there are so many things in French. SRI AUROBINDO: I am reminded of Gibbon. Whenever he wanted to quote anything which might offend the current taste, he used its Latin form. But in English there are more outspoken things than in Boccaccio's Decameron . Many English novels ...
... religion.' The more they scrutinized the Christian dogma, the more the European intellect found out on what falsehood were based the claims of the Christian clergy. Page 135 Edward Gibbon (1737-94), analysing that religion's claims, said, "Christians ... exacted an implicit submission to their doctrines without being able to produce a single argument that could engage the attention ...
... untimely doom. As we read the passage of that Titanic personality over a world too small for it, we seem to be listening again to the thunder-scene in Lear , or to some tragic piece out of Thucydides or Gibbon narrating the fall of majestic nations or the ruin of mighty kings. No sensitive man can read it without being shaken to the very heart. Even after his death Page 114 Madhu Sudan's evil ...
... them, as to Milton, the world's processes were familiar matters. John Bailey 6 well observes: " 'War seemed a civil game / To this uproar,' says Raphael, as if he were fresh from reading Livy or Gibbon and had all the wars of Europe and Asia in his memory... and, interesting as the passages are, it is difficult to forget the incongruity of Raphael and Adam discussing the Ptolemaic and Copernican ...
... referred. We may be struck by this plasticity in the diverse styles English literature teems with - the individual element at almost riotous play as between author and author (Sir Thomas Browne, Addison, Gibbon, Ruskin, Carlyle, Meredith, Arnold, Chesterton, Shaw, etc.) with no persistent tradition of writing as, for instance, in France for both prose and poetry until very recent times when a rebellious ...
... Beethoven, who became deaf, or Lord Nelson, who, mutilated by wounds, had to fight pain all his life. Julius Caesar suffered from epilepsy, Alexander the Great was a drunkard, and Nietzsche died insane. Gibbon had a famous hydrocele, Marat suffered frightfully from a skin disease, and Charles V had gout, arteriosclerosis, and dropsy. Many eminent men had syphilis (Henry VIII, Benvenuto Cellini, Baudelaire) ...
... 241, 244-6 France, Anatole, 145 French Revolution, 32, 52, 59, 101, 105,. 126, 149, 155, 207-8 Francis I, 90, 120 GALILEO, 308, 322 Germany, 32, 70, 72, 87-9 Gibbon, 238 -The Decline & Fall of the Roman EmPire, 238 Gide, Andre, 353-4 Gita, the, 27, 57,68, 83, 161, 163,188-9, 276, 280, 328, 340, 363, 369, 371, 381, 394 Goethe ...
... belong exclusively to man; 396 are common to man and the chimpanzee; 385 are common to man and the gorilla; 354 are common to man and the orang-outang; 117 belong both to man and the gibbon; and 113 are shared with other apes. This does not mean, of course, that man has actually "descended from the monkeys" as used to be generally believed in the late nineteenth century. In ...
... fundamental sense sincere, whereas over-emphasis and over-statement always bring in falsity. Who would think of censuring out of hand a prose style like Sir Thomas Browne's, Jeremy Taylor's, Donne's, Gibbon's, De Quincy's, Landor's, Car-lyle's, Ruskin's, Meredith's, Henry James's, Chesterton's, Charles Morgan's, Sir Winston Churchill's? These very names — three of them contemporary — should make ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1 The Immortal Nation GIBBON'S Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire must have been the original source of the inspiration that moved later on Spengler and Toynbee and others to posit a life-line for nations and races and mark its various stages of growth and evolution. The general theory put in a nutshell would ...
... contact through his work, nor could he know anything about the general plan of work; he had to carry out only the part assigned to him. At the Rungpore Library I came across another book, namely, Gibbon's famous Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire . I ran through the lengthy volumes from end to end with tremendous enthusiasm and added a great deal to my learning and knowledge. I had a hope that the ...
... contact through his work, nor could he know anything about the general plan of work; he had to carry out only the part assigned to him. At the Rungpore Library I came across another book, namely, Gibbon's famous Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. I ran through the lengthy volumes from end to end with tremendous enthusiasm and added a great deal to my learning and knowledge. I had a hope that ...
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