 | Michael O'Brien - 2004 - Страниц: 800
...that sense, a guarded discipline of modest confidence in human progress. Gibbon wrote of "the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world has increased, and still increases. the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race," but there was much... | |
 | Mark Goldie, Robert Wokler - 2006 - Страниц: 944
...therefore be lost. Hence, in the final words of the 'General Observations', Gibbon arrived at 'the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world has increased and still increases the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue of the human race' (1994, n, p. 516).... | |
 | Richard Koch, Chris Smith - 2006 - Страниц: 228
...to what height the human species may aspire . . . We may therefore safely acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race.6 The Romantic poets and writers of... | |
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We may therefore acquiesce in the pleasing conclusion, that every age of the world has increased, and still increases, the real wealth, the happiness, the knowledge, and perhaps the virtue, of the human race. 
