We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations. We sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short... The Review of Reviews - Página 434editado por - 1895Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Max Egremont - 1980 - 408 páginas
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| Piers Brendon - 1980 - 296 páginas
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| John Sparrow - 1981 - 272 páginas
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| David Paul Crook - 1984 - 488 páginas
...infinite travail, a race with conscience enough to feel that it is vile and intelligence enough to know that it is insignificant. We survey the past, and...sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with individual life, but short indeed, compared with the divisions of time open to our investigation,... | |
| Roger Adelson - 1995 - 272 páginas
...no expectation that humanity could do better in the future. In a book published in 1895, he wrote: We survey the past and see that its history is of...sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our... | |
| Jason Tomes - 2002 - 348 páginas
...infinite travail, a race with conscience enough to know that it is vile, and intelligence enough to know that it is insignificant. We survey the past and see...We sound the future, and learn that after a period . . . the energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless... | |
| Christine Bold - 1999 - 268 páginas
...labor there is race with conscience enough to know that it is vile and intelligence enough to know that it is insignificant. We survey the past and see that its history is a bl(xid-andtears of helpless blundering, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations. 1n umch more... | |
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