 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 psl.
...nations. But these advantages only tend to aggravate the reproach and shame of a degenerate people. They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers,...which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and... | |
 | Thomas Thornton - 1807 - 502 psl.
...or promote !withthe ' ancient the happiness of mankind ; who held in their lifeless hands, G eek*i the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the...which had created and improved that sacred patrimony, "f aud have since lain, " vanquished and weltering," through the long space of three hundred and fifty... | |
 | 1807 - 572 psl.
...modern Greeks : ' Can men, who, " ¡n the revolution of ten centuries, made not a single discovery to exalt the dignity, or promote the happiness of mankind ; who held in their lifeless hands, the liches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had creased and improved that sacred patrimony... | |
 | Thomas Thornton - 1807 - 484 psl.
...men, who, " in the revolution of ten centuries, Themodeini compared made not a single discovery to exalt the dignity, or promote ^-^ the happiness of mankind ; who held in their lifeless hands, Gredu>ithe riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that... | |
 | Thomas Thornton - 1809 - 508 psl.
...in the revolution of rncie!,t e * en centuries, made not a single discovery to oreeki; exa [t; t ne dignity, or promote the happiness of mankind, who...their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which hud created and improved that sacred patrimony^-," and have since lain, " vanquished and weltering,"... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 546 psl.
...nations. But these advantages only tend to aggravate the reproach and shame of a degenerate people. They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers,...which had created and improved that sacred patrimony : they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought... | |
 | William Hendry Stowell - 1848 - 400 psl.
...some glimmer of poetry in an age of learned industry, rather than of original genius. The Greeks " held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers,...which had created and improved that sacred patrimony : they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought... | |
 | Charles Hay Cameron - 1853 - 220 psl.
...variety. 134 The exhaustion of the Greeks in thus described by Gibbon in his 53rd chapter : — " They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers...which had created and improved that sacred patrimony : they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 502 psl.
...nations. But these advantages only tend to aggravate the reproach and shame of a degenerate people. They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers,...which had created and improved that sacred patrimony : they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought... | |
 | R. McCullam - 1856 - 324 psl.
...philosophy; but these advantages only tend to aggravate the reproach and shame of a degenerate people. They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers,...which had created and improved that sacred patrimony. They read, they praised, they compiled; but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and... | |
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They held in their lifeless hands the riches of their fathers, without inheriting the spirit which had created and improved that sacred patrimony: they read, they praised, they compiled, but their languid souls seemed alike incapable of thought and action. 
