The Life of Edward Gibbon with Selections from His Correspondence and Illustrations by the Rev. H. H. Milman, to which is Added: Essay on the Study of Literature by Edward GibbonBaudry's European Library, 1840 - 357 páginas |
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... conversation , however , not long before his death , I suggested to him that , if he should make them a full image of his mind , he would not have nerves to publish them , and therefore that they should be posthumous ; -He answered ...
... conversation , however , not long before his death , I suggested to him that , if he should make them a full image of his mind , he would not have nerves to publish them , and therefore that they should be posthumous ; -He answered ...
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... conversation , the sport of a lawless majority ; and the basest member of the committee , by a malicious word or a silent vote , might indulge his general spleen or personal animosity . Injury was aggravated by insult , and insult was ...
... conversation , the sport of a lawless majority ; and the basest member of the committee , by a malicious word or a silent vote , might indulge his general spleen or personal animosity . Injury was aggravated by insult , and insult was ...
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... conversation is faintly imprinted in my memory . The affection- ate heart of my aunt , Catherine Porten , bewailed a sister and a friend ; but my poor father was inconsolable , and the transport of grief seemed to threaten his life or ...
... conversation is faintly imprinted in my memory . The affection- ate heart of my aunt , Catherine Porten , bewailed a sister and a friend ; but my poor father was inconsolable , and the transport of grief seemed to threaten his life or ...
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... conversation of English gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century . It is said in the family , that she was principally induced to this undertaking by her affection for her nephew , whose weak constitution required her ...
... conversation of English gentlemen in the latter end of the eighteenth century . It is said in the family , that she was principally induced to this undertaking by her affection for her nephew , whose weak constitution required her ...
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... conversation , which could alike please the young and the old . All this is now lost , finally , irreco- verably lost ! I will agree with my Lady , that the immortality of the soul is at some times a very comfortable doctrine . A ...
... conversation , which could alike please the young and the old . All this is now lost , finally , irreco- verably lost ! I will agree with my Lady , that the immortality of the soul is at some times a very comfortable doctrine . A ...
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