 | Edward Gibbon - English letters - 1796 - 520 pages
...The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the nnoft illuftrious in the worid. After a painful afcent of eight or ten centuries, our barons and princes of Europe are loft in the darknefs of the middle ages; but, in the vaft equality of the empire of China, the pofterity... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the mofl| - illuftrious in the world. After a painful afcent of eight or ten centuries, our barons and princes of Europe are loft in the darknefs of the middle ages ; but, iu the vaft equality of the empire of China, the pofterity... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1797 - 512 pages
...polteriThe family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the moft illuftrious in the world. After a painful afcent of eight or ten centuries, our barons and princes of Europe are loft in the darknefs of the middle ages ; but in the vafl equality of the empire of China, the pofterity... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 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...lost in the darkness of the middle ages; but, in the rast equality of the empire of China, the posterity of Confucius have maintained, above two thousand... | |
 | Biography - 1809 - 624 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 eight or tea centuries, our. barons and princes of Europe are lost in the darkness of the middle age^; but in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 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 - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1820 - 494 pages
...whose writings will instruct or delight the latest posterity. The family of Confucius," adds he, " is in my opinion the most illustrious in the world....the darkness of the middle ages ; but in the vast antiquity of the empire of China, the posterity of Confucius have maintained, above two thousand two... | |
 | 1820 - 482 pages
...barons and princes of Europe are lost in the darkness of the middle ages ; but in the vast antiquity of the empire of China, the posterity of Confucius...maintained, above two thousand two hundred years, their peaceful honours and perpetual succession. The chief of the family is still revered by the sovereign... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 344 pages
...than the offspring of a man of genius whose writings will instruct or delight tiie latest posterity. The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the most illustrious in the wo:ld. After a painful ascent of eight or ten centuries, our barons and princes of Europe are lost... | |
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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,... 
