Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Composed by Himself, Том 11796 |
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Сторінка iv
... most important part confifts of Memoirs of Mr. Gibbon's Life and Writings , a work which he feems to have projected with peculiar folici- tude and attention , and of which he left Six dif- ferent sketches , all in his own hand - writing ...
... most important part confifts of Memoirs of Mr. Gibbon's Life and Writings , a work which he feems to have projected with peculiar folici- tude and attention , and of which he left Six dif- ferent sketches , all in his own hand - writing ...
Сторінка vi
... most interesting part of his Life . His Correfpondence during that period will , in great measure , fupply the defi- ciency . It will be feparated from the Memoirs and placed in an Appendix , that those who are not difpofed to be ...
... most interesting part of his Life . His Correfpondence during that period will , in great measure , fupply the defi- ciency . It will be feparated from the Memoirs and placed in an Appendix , that those who are not difpofed to be ...
Сторінка viii
... most common event , to a critical Difquifition of confiderable lear-- ning , or an Inquiry into fome abftruse point of Philofophy . It certainly was not his intention that this private and motley Diary fhould be presented to the Public ...
... most common event , to a critical Difquifition of confiderable lear-- ning , or an Inquiry into fome abftruse point of Philofophy . It certainly was not his intention that this private and motley Diary fhould be presented to the Public ...
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... most illuftrious in the world . After a painful afcent of eight or ten centuries , our barons and princes of Europe are loft in the darkness of the middle ages ; but , in the vast equality of the empire of China , the posterity of ...
... most illuftrious in the world . After a painful afcent of eight or ten centuries , our barons and princes of Europe are loft in the darkness of the middle ages ; but , in the vast equality of the empire of China , the posterity of ...
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... most respectable characters of the age , Sir William Dug . dale , Mr. Afhmole , Dr. John Betts , and Dr. Nehe- miah Grew , were his friends ; and in the fociety of fuch men , John Gibbon may be recorded without difgrace as the member of ...
... most respectable characters of the age , Sir William Dug . dale , Mr. Afhmole , Dr. John Betts , and Dr. Nehe- miah Grew , were his friends ; and in the fociety of fuch men , John Gibbon may be recorded without difgrace as the member of ...
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