The life of Edward Gibbon [by himself] with selections from his correspondence, and illustr. by the rev. H.H. Milman. To which is added, Essay on the study of literatureBaudry's European Library, 1840 - 357 páginas |
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... would not have felt the slightest interest , and I found not above two or three senten- ces which I should have wished to rescue from oblivion . - M . * A lively desire of knowing and of recording our 1 INTRODUCTION PAGE.
... would not have felt the slightest interest , and I found not above two or three senten- ces which I should have wished to rescue from oblivion . - M . * A lively desire of knowing and of recording our 1 INTRODUCTION PAGE.
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Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman. * A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails , that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men . We seem to have lived in the ...
Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman. * A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails , that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men . We seem to have lived in the ...
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... lively image of the wisest of mankind . The nobility of the Spencers has been illustrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but I exhort them to consider the Fairy Queen " as the most precious jewel of their coronet . Our ...
... lively image of the wisest of mankind . The nobility of the Spencers has been illustrated and enriched by the trophies of Marlborough ; but I exhort them to consider the Fairy Queen " as the most precious jewel of their coronet . Our ...
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... lively and ingenious scholar , while he resided at Lausanne as preceptor to the Here- ditary Prince of Brunswick . On his return to his proper station of Librarian to the Ducal Library of Wolfenbuttel , he acciden- tally found among ...
... lively and ingenious scholar , while he resided at Lausanne as preceptor to the Here- ditary Prince of Brunswick . On his return to his proper station of Librarian to the Ducal Library of Wolfenbuttel , he acciden- tally found among ...
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... lively , his style forcible and clear ; and , had not his vigorous mind been clouded by enthu- siasm , he might be ranked with the most agreeable and inge- nious writers of the times . While the Bangorian controversy was a fashionable ...
... lively , his style forcible and clear ; and , had not his vigorous mind been clouded by enthu- siasm , he might be ranked with the most agreeable and inge- nious writers of the times . While the Bangorian controversy was a fashionable ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 204 - He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.
Página 21 - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
Página 11 - It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear.
Página 94 - 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 153 - History. At the outset all was dark and doubtful ; even the title of the work, the true era of the " Decline and Fall of the Empire," the limits of the introduction, the division of the chapters, and the order of the narrative ; and I was often tempted to cast away the labour of seven years.
Página 190 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. 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.
Página 103 - I scarcely ever met with a better companion ; he has inexhaustible spirits, infinite wit and humour, and a great deal of knowledge ; but ,1 thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his life stained with every vice, and his conversation full of blasphemy and indecency. These morals he glories In — for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted. He told us himself, that in this time of public dissension he was resolved to make his fortune.
Página 196 - Well, if the use be mine, can it concern one, Whether the name belong to Pope or Vernon?
Página 115 - 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 192 - Before my departure from England, I was present at the august spectacle of Mr. Hastings's trial in Westminster Hall. It is not my province to absolve or condemn the governor of India ; but Mr. Sheridan's eloquence demanded my applause ; nor could I hear without emotion the personal compliment which he paid me in the presence of the British nation.* From this display of genius, which blazed four successive days, I shall stoop to a very mechanical circumstance.