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The love of pleasure and the love of action

Saturday, April 28th, 2012 Posted under books, Gibbon. | Comments Off on The love of pleasure and the love of action

There are two very natural propensities which we may distinguish in the most virtuous and liberal dispositions, the love of pleasure and the love of action. If the former is ... Read more..

A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian

Sunday, April 8th, 2012 Posted under books, Gibbon. | Comments Off on A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian

The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from Heaven, arrayed in her native purity. A more melancholy duty is imposed on the historian. He ... Read more..