 | H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...principles of oar present laws and manners. In their primitive state of simplicity and independence, the Germans were surveyed by the discerning eye, and delineated by the masterly pencil of Tacitas, the first of historians, who applied the science of philosophy to the study of facts. In his... | |
 | 1814 - 684 pages
...the * Gibbon's History, vol. I. chap. 9. " In their primitive state of simplicity and independence, the Germans were surveyed by the discerning eye, and...pencil of Tacitus, the first of historians who applied thescience of philosophy to the of facts. judgment of her own nation. It therefore renders more striking... | |
 | Karl Hoffmeister - 1831 - 286 pages
...independence, the Germans were surveyed by tbe discerning eye and delineated by the masterly pensil of Tacitus, the first of historians who applied the science of philosophy to the study of facts. @o меГеп »p&HofoMtfd&en ©eifU, b. $. Urteil, ©^orffitm, getfHge £iefe w. f, », voir bet ítacitué... | |
 | Karl Hoffmeister - 1831 - 286 pages
...empire, Loipz. 1821. 1. Vol. p. 295.) faßt: In theis primitive state of simplicity and independence, the Germans were surveyed by the discerning eye and delineated by the masterly pensil of Tacitus, the first of historians who applied the science of philosophy to the study of facts.... | |
 | H. M. Melford - 1841 - 466 pages
...other intellectual operation. (Johnson.) In their primitive state of simplicity and indépendance , the Germans were surveyed by the discerning eye, and...applied the science of philosophy to the study of facts. (Gibbon's Hist.) This primitive occupant of the See of Rome was St. С lernen I , one of those fellow-labourers... | |
 | 1877 - 668 pages
...primitive state of simplicity and independence, the Germans were surveyed by the discerning eve nnd delineated by the masterly pencil of Tacitus, the...The expressive conciseness of his descriptions has deserved to exercise the diligence of innumerable antiquarians, and to excite the genius and penetration... | |
 | William Holden Spilsbury - 1850 - 360 pages
...of character and manners, sketched with the force and freshness of life, which abound in his work; Tacitus, the first of historians who applied the science of philosophy to the study of facts ; the orations and philosophical writings of Tully, the productions of ' Rome's least mortal mind ;' the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 pages
...principles of our present laws and manners. In their primitive state of simplicity and independence, the Germans were surveyed by the discerning eye, and...The expressive conciseness of his descriptions has deserved to exercise the diligence of innumerable antiquarians, and to excite the genius and penetration... | |
 | 1860 - 436 pages
...Variorum et Gronovii, 2 vols, thick 8vo. editio optima, old calf, neat, 14s . . . . Amst., Blau, 1685 "Tacitus, the first of Historians who applied the science of philosophy to the study of facts." — Gibbon. 4604 — The Ende of Nero and beginning of Galba, fower bookes of the Histories of C. Tacitus,... | |
 | 1877 - 574 pages
...afterwards ? Take the words of Gibbon : — " In their primitive state of simplicity and independence, the Germans were surveyed by the discerning eye and...The expressive conciseness of his descriptions has deserved to exercise the diligence of innumerable antiquarians, and to excite the genius and penetration... | |
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In their primitive state of simplicity and independence the Germans were surveyed by the discerning eye, and delineated by the masterly pencil, of Tacitus, the first of historians who applied the science of philosophy to the study of facts. 
