The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, 第 1 巻J. Murray, 1814 |
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... Reasons for doing so - Reflexions on his change of Situation - short Characters of Prince Henry of Prussia and of Mr. Fox , both of whom he sees at Lau- sanne - proceeds in , and finishes his History - interesting Remarks on concluding ...
... Reasons for doing so - Reflexions on his change of Situation - short Characters of Prince Henry of Prussia and of Mr. Fox , both of whom he sees at Lau- sanne - proceeds in , and finishes his History - interesting Remarks on concluding ...
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... reason to believe that the second structure was not much inferior to the first . He had realized a very considerable pro- perty in Sussex , Hampshire , Buckinghamshire , and the New River Company ; and had acquired a spa cious house ...
... reason to believe that the second structure was not much inferior to the first . He had realized a very considerable pro- perty in Sussex , Hampshire , Buckinghamshire , and the New River Company ; and had acquired a spa cious house ...
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... reason for the admission of knowledge , I was taught the arts of reading , writing , and arithmetic . So remote is the date , so vague is the memory of their origin in myself , that , were not the error cor- rected by analogy , I should ...
... reason for the admission of knowledge , I was taught the arts of reading , writing , and arithmetic . So remote is the date , so vague is the memory of their origin in myself , that , were not the error cor- rected by analogy , I should ...
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... reason . I can never forget the scene of our first interview , some weeks after the fatal event ; the awful silence , the room hung with black , the mid - day tapers , his sighs and tears ; his praises of my mother , a saint in heaven ...
... reason . I can never forget the scene of our first interview , some weeks after the fatal event ; the awful silence , the room hung with black , the mid - day tapers , his sighs and tears ; his praises of my mother , a saint in heaven ...
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... reason was sometimes clouded by prejudice , her sentiments were never disguised by hypocrisy or affectation . Her indulgent ten- derness , the frankness of her temper , and my in- nate rising curiosity , soon removed all distance be ...
... reason was sometimes clouded by prejudice , her sentiments were never disguised by hypocrisy or affectation . Her indulgent ten- derness , the frankness of her temper , and my in- nate rising curiosity , soon removed all distance be ...
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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.