The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, 第 1 巻J. Murray, 1814 |
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... Conversation 279 Mirabeau's Work Sur la Monarchie Prussienne - M . Dey- verdun's Death - Reflexions on that Event - Mr . Gib- bon hesitates whether he should purchase the Perpetuity of M. Deyverdun's Estate - disposes of his own at Len ...
... Conversation 279 Mirabeau's Work Sur la Monarchie Prussienne - M . Dey- verdun's Death - Reflexions on that Event - Mr . Gib- bon hesitates whether he should purchase the Perpetuity of M. Deyverdun's Estate - disposes of his own at Len ...
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... Conversation - State of Health - the Na ture of his Disorder - his Health fast declining - under- goes the Operation of Tapping - his last visit to Sheffield- 378 384 387 397 place- place - his Return to London and Death , Jan. CONTENTS ...
... Conversation - State of Health - the Na ture of his Disorder - his Health fast declining - under- goes the Operation of Tapping - his last visit to Sheffield- 378 384 387 397 place- place - his Return to London and Death , Jan. CONTENTS ...
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... conversation with him - Lady Elizabeth Foster.- Has never repented of his Retreat to Lausanne- Contempt of Office in England - Uncertainty of his future Destination . Oct. 22d , 1784 365 No. CCIV . Mr. Gibbon to Lord Sheffield ...
... conversation with him - Lady Elizabeth Foster.- Has never repented of his Retreat to Lausanne- Contempt of Office in England - Uncertainty of his future Destination . Oct. 22d , 1784 365 No. CCIV . Mr. Gibbon to Lord Sheffield ...
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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 ; -Ile 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 ; -Ile answered ...
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... conversation , the sport of a lawless majority ; and the basest member of the committee , by a ma- licious 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 ma- licious 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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acquaintance Adieu agreeable amusement assez avoir avoit Beriton Berne bien C'est character conversation Count de Lally d'une dæmon deux Deyverdun Duchess of Devonshire EDWARD GIBBON England English epistle Essay esteem été étoit être faire fait father favour fortune France French Geneva geography of Italy grand happiness Holroyd homme honour hope ideas idées j'ai jamais journal l'esprit labour Lady language Latin Lausanne learned letter London Lord North Lord Sheffield Madame maison Memoirs ment militia mind Monsieur months n'est nation Necker never Orosius Paris Pavilliard perhaps persons peut philosopher pleasure political Prince provinces of France qu'il qu'on qu'une quæ rien Severy Sheffield-Place society soon spirit style summer Swiss Switzerland taste thousand tion tout Turin Vaud Veleia volume weeks William Henry Clinton winter wish write
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6 ページ - 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.
212 ページ - That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished"; and Mr.
194 ページ - The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation: three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect.
122 ページ - ... 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.
198 ページ - The favour of mankind is most freely bestowed on a new acquaintance of any original merit; and the mutual surprise of the public and their favourite is productive of those warm sensibilities, which at a second meeting can no longer be rekindled. If I listened to the music of praise, I was more seriously satisfied with the approbation of my judges. The candour of Dr. Robertson embraced his disciple. A letter from Mr. Hume overpaid the labour of ten years, but I have never presumed to accept a place...
176 ページ - After a sleepless night, I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation.
221 ページ - 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.
35 ページ - The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a scries of uniform form employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, -weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience...
liv ページ - 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.
178 ページ - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted 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.