The Life of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Selections from His Correspondence, and IllustrationsJohn Murray, Albemarle Street, 1839 - 455 páginas |
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... have given in its defence a clear and con- scientious vote . Its Compare Daru , Histoire de Venise , liv . vi . tom . i . p . 515. 520 . My grandfather could not expect to be treated with more 24 CHAP . I. MEMOIRS OF.
... have given in its defence a clear and con- scientious vote . Its Compare Daru , Histoire de Venise , liv . vi . tom . i . p . 515. 520 . My grandfather could not expect to be treated with more 24 CHAP . I. MEMOIRS OF.
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... expect to be treated with more lenity than his companions . His Tory principles and connections rendered him obnoxious to the ruling powers : his name is reported in a suspicious secret ; and his well - known abilities could not plead ...
... expect to be treated with more lenity than his companions . His Tory principles and connections rendered him obnoxious to the ruling powers : his name is reported in a suspicious secret ; and his well - known abilities could not plead ...
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... expect that a body of literary men , devoted to a life of celibacy , exempt from the care of their own subsistence , and amply provided with books , should devote their leisure to the pro- secution of study , and that some effects of ...
... expect that a body of literary men , devoted to a life of celibacy , exempt from the care of their own subsistence , and amply provided with books , should devote their leisure to the pro- secution of study , and that some effects of ...
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... expect . The domestic discipline of our ancestors has been re- laxed by the philosophy and softness of the age ; and if my father remembered that he had trembled before a stern parent , it was only to adopt with his own son an opposite ...
... expect . The domestic discipline of our ancestors has been re- laxed by the philosophy and softness of the age ; and if my father remembered that he had trembled before a stern parent , it was only to adopt with his own son an opposite ...
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... expect the mature age of fifty , before he gave himself or his writings to the public ( Olivet , Histoire de l'Aca- démie Françoise , tom . ii . p . 143. ) . The counsel was singular ; but it is still more singular that it should have ...
... expect the mature age of fifty , before he gave himself or his writings to the public ( Olivet , Histoire de l'Aca- démie Françoise , tom . ii . p . 143. ) . The counsel was singular ; but it is still more singular that it should have ...
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Página 287 - After laying down my pen. I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Página 308 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Página 182 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins, of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter', that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 16 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Página 62 - In the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have, for these many years, given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.
Página 149 - The discipline and evolutions of a modern battalion gave me a clearer notion of the phalanx and the legion ; and the captain of the Hampshire grenadiers (the reader may smile) has not been useless to the historian of the Roman empire.
Página 297 - Well, if the use be mine, can it concern one, Whether the name belong to Pope or Vernon?
Página 109 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate: I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem.
Página 285 - He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child.
Página 75 - Variations,' achieved my conversion; and I surely fell by a noble hand. I have since examined the originals with a more discerning eye, and shall not hesitate to pronounce, that Bossuet is indeed a master of all the weapons of controversy. In the 'Exposition...