The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq. with Memoirs of His Life and Writings: LettersAMS Press, 1814 - 5 ページ |
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175 ページ - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing lingering look behind?
241 ページ - Our danger is at an end, but our disgrace will be lasting, and the month of June 1780 will ever be marked by a dark and diabolical fanaticism which I had supposed to be extinct, but which actually subsists in Great Britain perhaps beyond any other country in Europe.
140 ページ - George, with his own hand, wrote a very polite epistle to sister Kitty, requesting her friendly assistance. Full powers and instructions were sent at the same time to Gunning, to agree for any force between five and twenty thousand men, carte blanche for the terms...
370 ページ - ... would be indifferent, and it would require pages, or rather volumes, to describe their persons and characters. With regard to my standing dish, my domestic friend, I could not be much disappointed, after an intimacy of eight and twenty years.
209 ページ - What a wretched piece of work do we seem to be making of it in America ! The greatest force which any European power ever ventured to transport into that continent, is not strong enough even to attack the enemy ; the naval strength of Great Britain is not sufficient to prevent the Americans (they have almost lost the appellation of rebels...
380 ページ - ... to believe that the intelligence may be true. Primo, It must one day be true; and therefore may very probably be so at present. Secundo, We may always depend on the impartiality, accuracy, and veracity of an English newspaper. Tertio, which is indeed the strongest argument, we are credibly informed that for a long time past the said celebrated Historian has not written to any of his friends in England ; and as that respectable personage had always the reputation of a most exact and regular correspondent,...
370 ページ - I have often agreed, in jest and in earnest, that a house like ours would be regulated, and graced, and enlivened, by an agreeable female companion ; but each of us seems desirous that his friend should sacrifice himself for the public good. Since my residence here I have lived much in women's company ; and, to your credit be it spoken, I like you the better the more I see of you. Not that I am in love with any particular person. I have discovered about half a...
403 ページ - INTELLIGENCE EXTRAORDINARY. This day (August the seventh) the celebrated EG arrived with a numerous retinue (one servant). We hear that he has brought over from Lausanne the remainder of his History for immediate publication.
389 ページ - I should either have been in my grave, or imperfectly lived a crooked ricketty monster, a burden to myself and others. To her instructions I owe the first rudiments of knowledge, the first exercise of reason, and a taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life ; and though she taught me neither language nor science, she was certainly the most useful preceptor I ever had.
390 ページ - ... I owe the first rudiments of knowledge, the first exercise of reason, and a taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life ; and though she taught me neither language nor science, she was certainly the most useful preceptor I ever had. As I grew up, an intercourse of cc 3 thirty thirty years endeared her to me, as the faithful friend and the agreeable companion. You have seen with what freedom and confidence we lived together, and have often admired her character and conversation,...