The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, 第 1 巻J. Murray, 1814 |
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... present Memoirs , without any unneces- sary delay ; for I am persuaded , that the Author of them cannot be made to appear in a truer light than he does in the following pages . In them , and in his different Letters , which I have added ...
... present Memoirs , without any unneces- sary delay ; for I am persuaded , that the Author of them cannot be made to appear in a truer light than he does in the following pages . In them , and in his different Letters , which I have added ...
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... present Publication . They will prove , how pleasant , friendly , and amiable Mr. Gibbon was in private life ; and if , in publishing Letters so flattering to myself , I incur the imputation of vanity , I shall meet the charge with a ...
... present Publication . They will prove , how pleasant , friendly , and amiable Mr. Gibbon was in private life ; and if , in publishing Letters so flattering to myself , I incur the imputation of vanity , I shall meet the charge with a ...
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... nor have I thought myself at liberty to to present it , in the shape in which he xviii ADVERTISEMENT TO Mr Gibbon to Mr Holroyd at Berlin-Account his Return through Paris, and of Madame Necker Beriton, Oct 31st, 1765.
... nor have I thought myself at liberty to to present it , in the shape in which he xviii ADVERTISEMENT TO Mr Gibbon to Mr Holroyd at Berlin-Account his Return through Paris, and of Madame Necker Beriton, Oct 31st, 1765.
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With Memoirs of His Life and Writings Edward Gibbon. to present it , in the shape in which he left it . But when reduced to an account of his literary occupations , it forms so singular and so inte- resting a portrait of an indefatigable ...
With Memoirs of His Life and Writings Edward Gibbon. to present it , in the shape in which he left it . But when reduced to an account of his literary occupations , it forms so singular and so inte- resting a portrait of an indefatigable ...
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... present the City of Bristol - alludes pleasantly to an in- tention of marrying -- his own Health and Situation at Lausanne Exhortation to Lord Sheffield and Family to visit Lausanne -arranges their Route - Mr . Gibbon's abhorrence of Re ...
... present the City of Bristol - alludes pleasantly to an in- tention of marrying -- his own Health and Situation at Lausanne Exhortation to Lord Sheffield and Family to visit Lausanne -arranges their Route - Mr . Gibbon's abhorrence of Re ...
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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.