 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 páginas
...conception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. 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... | |
 | 1855 - 364 páginas
...his history is too remarkable to be omitted : — " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th June, 1787 between the hours of eleven and twelve that I wrote the last lines of the las page in a summer-house in my garden After Jaying down my pen, I took severa turns... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1856 - 470 páginas
...He must be himself allowed to describe the conclusion of his arduous labours. " It was," he says, " on the day, or rather the night of the 27th of June,...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 walks... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...conception: I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. 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... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1856 - 1124 páginas
...literary labors with mingled feelings of regret and delight. ' It was,' he says, ' 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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 páginas
...sufficiently beautiful to justify theiir re-transcription. " It was on the day," he writes, "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... | |
 | 1857 - 480 páginas
...conception ; I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...conception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. 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 nen. I took several turns... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 páginas
...task. Of this event he himself h.ts left us the following account : ' 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... | |
 | 1858 - 588 páginas
...conception ; I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. 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... | |
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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... 
