Edward Gibbon Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language . . .

  Edward Gibbon

  Communication, Ideas, Language

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V 5: the History Focus”, p.63, 谷月社

• The most successful of the Tartar princes assumed the military command, to which he was entitled by the superiority either of merit or of power. He was raised to the throne by the acclamations of his equals; and the title of Khan expresses, in the language of the North of Asia, the full extent of the regal dignity. The right of hereditary succession was long confined to the blood of the founder of the monarchy; and at this moment all the Khans, who reign from Crimea to the wall of China, are the lineal descendants of the renowned Zingis.

  Edward Gibbon

  Wall, Military, Successful

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V2: the History Focus”, p.354, 谷月社

• The difference of language, dress, and manners . . . severs and alienates the nations of the globe.

  Edward Gibbon

  Differences, Dresses, Language

  Edward Gibbon (1869). “The Crusades: A.D. 1095-1261”, p.81

• Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  Principles, Tribes, Language

  EDWARD GIBBON, ESQ. (1838). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLIINE AND FALL OF THE EMPIRE”, p.338

• Greek is doubtless the most perfect [language] that has been contrived by the art of man.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Men, Perfect

• Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions of philosophy.

  Edward Gibbon

  Philosophy, Giving, Greek

  Edward Gibbon (1840). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire”

• My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

  Edward Gibbon

  Obscurity, Language, Obscenity

  Edward Gibbon (1900). “The Memoirs of the Life of Edward Gibbon with Various Observations and Excursions”

• In this primitive and abject state [of hunters and gatherers], which ill deserves the name of society, the human brute, without arts or laws, almost without sense or language, is poorly distinguished from the rest of the animal creation.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Animal, Law

• The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise.

  Edward Gibbon

  Writing, Exercise, Choices

  Edward Gibbon (1837). “The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writing Composed by Himself, Illustrated from His Letters with Occasional Notes and Narrative”, p.92

• Pleasure and guilt are synonymous terms in the language of the monks, and they discovered, by experience, that rigid fasts, and abstemious diet, are the most effectual preservatives against the impure desires of the flesh.

  Edward Gibbon

  Guilt, Desire, Flesh

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.1728, e-artnow

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