Edward Gibbon Quote

History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.


The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume the First (ed. 1776)


History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she ...

History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she ...

History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she ...

History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she ...