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In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader.

Edward Gibbon
Intellectual, Age, Climate
Edward Gibbon, M. Guizot (François) (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.529

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

Edward Gibbon
History, Age, Might
Edward Gibbon (1825). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 3: Complete in Eight Volumes”, p.186

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

Edward Gibbon
Math, Epic, Age
Edward Gibbon (1862). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire”, p.401

[Every age], however destitute of science or virtue, sufficiently abounds with acts of blood and military renown.

Edward Gibbon
Military, Blood, Age
Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1804, e-artnow

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.

Edward Gibbon
Real, Race, Age
Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.1746, Delphi Classics

The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them.

Edward Gibbon
Age, May, Revolution
Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1717, e-artnow

The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.

Edward Gibbon
Suicide, Age, Criminals

[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.

Edward Gibbon
Years, Age, West
Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.454

The ruin of Paganism, in the age of Theodosius, is perhaps the only example of the total extirpation of any ancient and popular superstition; and may therefore deserve to be considered, as a singular event in the history of the human mind.

Edward Gibbon
Mind, Age, Ruins
Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.272

When Julian ascended the throne, he declared his impatience to embrace and reward the Syrian sophist, who had preserved, in a degenerate age, the Grecian purity of taste, of manners and of religion. The emperor's prepossession was increased and justified by the discreet pride of his favourite.

Edward Gibbon
Pride, History, Age
Edward Gibbon (1840). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.137

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