Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Том 1P. Wogan, 1796 - 726 стор. |
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... still more imperfect . It is difficult to discover the order in which thefe feveral Pieces were written , but there is reafon to believe that the most copious was the last . From all these the following Memoirs have been carefully ...
... still more imperfect . It is difficult to discover the order in which thefe feveral Pieces were written , but there is reafon to believe that the most copious was the last . From all these the following Memoirs have been carefully ...
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... still alive and active ; but my reason was not fuf- ficiently informed to understand the value , or to lament the lofs , of three precious years from my entrance at Weftmin- fter to my admiffion at Oxford . Inftead of repining at my ...
... still alive and active ; but my reason was not fuf- ficiently informed to understand the value , or to lament the lofs , of three precious years from my entrance at Weftmin- fter to my admiffion at Oxford . Inftead of repining at my ...
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... still alive , fhe would bear teftimony to the early and conftant uniformity of my fentiments . It will in- deed be replied , that I am not a competent judge ; that plea- fure is incompatible with pain ; that joy is excluded from ...
... still alive , fhe would bear teftimony to the early and conftant uniformity of my fentiments . It will in- deed be replied , that I am not a competent judge ; that plea- fure is incompatible with pain ; that joy is excluded from ...
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... still remains in the hands of the clergy , an order of men whose man- ners are remote from the prefent world , and whose eyes are dazzled by the light of philofophy . The legal in- corporation of these focieties by the charters of ...
... still remains in the hands of the clergy , an order of men whose man- ners are remote from the prefent world , and whose eyes are dazzled by the light of philofophy . The legal in- corporation of these focieties by the charters of ...
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... still read , without contempt , a differtation of eight folio pages on eight lines ( 287-294 ) of the fourth Georgic of Virgil . Mr. Deyverdun , my friend , whose name will be frequently repeated , had joined with equal zeal , though ...
... still read , without contempt , a differtation of eight folio pages on eight lines ( 287-294 ) of the fourth Georgic of Virgil . Mr. Deyverdun , my friend , whose name will be frequently repeated , had joined with equal zeal , though ...
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Сторінка 167 - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters, and all nature was silent.
Сторінка 142 - 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...
Сторінка 41 - I was never summoned to attend even the ceremony of a lecture; and, excepting one voluntary visit to his rooms during the eight months of his titular office, the tutor and pupil lived in the same college as strangers to...
Сторінка 142 - ... chapters have been reduced by three successive revisals from a large volume to their present size; and they might still be compressed without any loss of facts or sentiments. An opposite fault may be imputed to the concise and superficial narrative of the first reigns from Commodus to Alexander, a fault of which I have never heard except from Mr Hume in his last journey to London. Such an oracle might have been consulted and obeyed with rational devotion; but I was soon disgusted with the modest...
Сторінка xviii - The family of Confucius is, in my opinion, the most illustrious in the world. After a painful ascent of eight or ten centuries, our barons and princes of Europe are lost in the darkness of the middle ages ; but in the vast equality of the empire of China, the posterity of Confucius have maintained above two thousand two hundred years their peaceful honours and perpetual succession.
Сторінка 39 - ... modern theatres, was reduced to a dry and literal interpretation of the author's text. During the first weeks I constantly attended these lessons in my tutor's room ; but as they appeared equally devoid of profit and pleasure, I was once tempted to try the experiment of a formal apology.
Сторінка 14 - Call, is still read as a popular and powerful book of devotion. His precepts are rigid, but they are founded on the gospel: his satire is sharp, but it is drawn from the knowledge of human life; and many of his portraits are not unworthy of the pen of La Bruyere. If he finds a spark of piety in his reader's mind, he will soon kindle it to a flame; and a philosopher must allow that he exposes, with equal severity and truth, the strange contradiction between the faith and practice of the Christian...
Сторінка 70 - I hesitate, from the apprehension of ridicule, when I approach the delicate subject of my early love. By this word I do not mean the polite attention, the gallantry, without hope or design, which has originated in the spirit of chivalry, and is interwoven with the texture of French manners. I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of...
Сторінка 39 - I repeated the offence with less ceremony; the excuse was admitted with the same indulgence: the slightest motive of laziness or indisposition, the most trifling avocation at home or abroad, was allowed as a worthy impediment; nor did my tutor appear conscious of my absence or neglect.
Сторінка 29 - World, which exhibit the Byzantine period on a larger scale. Mahomet and his Saracens soon fixed my attention ; and some instinct of criticism directed me to the genuine sources. Simon Ockley, an original in every sense, first opened my eyes ; and I was led from one book to another, till I had ranged round the circle of Oriental history. Before I was sixteen, I had exhausted all that could be learned in English of the Arabs and Persians, the Tartars and Turks ; and the same ardour urged me to guess...