The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, 1. kötetJ. Murray, 1814 |
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28. oldal
... , I used now - and - then in a summer , when the pleasantness of the season invited , to take a so- litary walk to the sea - shore , which lies about two miles from the town where I lived . Here I miles 28 MEMOIRS OF.
... , I used now - and - then in a summer , when the pleasantness of the season invited , to take a so- litary walk to the sea - shore , which lies about two miles from the town where I lived . Here I miles 28 MEMOIRS OF.
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... summer of 1751 , I accompanied my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's , in Wiltshire ; but I was less delighted with the beauties of Stourhead , than with discovering in the library a common book , the Continuation of Echard's Roman ...
... summer of 1751 , I accompanied my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's , in Wiltshire ; but I was less delighted with the beauties of Stourhead , than with discovering in the library a common book , the Continuation of Echard's Roman ...
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... Summer vacation , Dr. Walde- grave accepted a college living at Washington in Sussex , and on my return I no longer found him at Oxford . From that time I have lost sight of my first tutor ; but at the end of thirty years ( 1781 ) he ...
... Summer vacation , Dr. Walde- grave accepted a college living at Washington in Sussex , and on my return I no longer found him at Oxford . From that time I have lost sight of my first tutor ; but at the end of thirty years ( 1781 ) he ...
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... summer , my father consented that I should make the tour of Switzerland with Pavilliard : and our short absence of one month ( September 21st - October 20th , 1755 ) was a reward and relaxation of my assiduous studies . * The fashion of ...
... summer , my father consented that I should make the tour of Switzerland with Pavilliard : and our short absence of one month ( September 21st - October 20th , 1755 ) was a reward and relaxation of my assiduous studies . * The fashion of ...
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... summer of 1759 , to the races at Stockbridge , Reading , and Odiam , where he had entered a horse for the hunters ' plate ; and I was not displeased with the sight of our Olympic games , the beauty of the spot , the fleetness of the ...
... summer of 1759 , to the races at Stockbridge , Reading , and Odiam , where he had entered a horse for the hunters ' plate ; and I was not displeased with the sight of our Olympic games , the beauty of the spot , the fleetness of the ...
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6. oldal - 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. oldal - That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished"; and Mr.
194. oldal - 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. oldal - ... 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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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. oldal - 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.