The Works of Edward Gibbon, Volume 13F. DeFau, 1907 - Byzantine Empire |
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... honour of my ancestry is James Fiens , Baron Say and Seale , and Lord High Treasurer of England in the reign 7 Grammont , C. Court at Tunbridge - merry times . † * Those who are acquainted with heraldry are aware that the word ogress is ...
... honour of my ancestry is James Fiens , Baron Say and Seale , and Lord High Treasurer of England in the reign 7 Grammont , C. Court at Tunbridge - merry times . † * Those who are acquainted with heraldry are aware that the word ogress is ...
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... honours is favourable to the Royal prerogative ; and my kinsman , like most of his family , was a high Tory in Church and State . In the latter end of the reign of Charles the Second , his pen was exercised in the cause of the Duke of ...
... honours is favourable to the Royal prerogative ; and my kinsman , like most of his family , was a high Tory in Church and State . In the latter end of the reign of Charles the Second , his pen was exercised in the cause of the Duke of ...
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... honour of three and thirty Englishmen were made the authorities . He sat in the Irish , and subsequently in the English Parliament , and in all his actions showed a strong controversial spirit . His Account of the State of Denmark as it ...
... honour of three and thirty Englishmen were made the authorities . He sat in the Irish , and subsequently in the English Parliament , and in all his actions showed a strong controversial spirit . His Account of the State of Denmark as it ...
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... honour will not be annulled by any positive law , and the frequent imposition of oaths had enlarged and fortified the Jacobite conscience . On these ruins , with the skill and credit of which Parliament had not been able to despoil him ...
... honour will not be annulled by any positive law , and the frequent imposition of oaths had enlarged and fortified the Jacobite conscience . On these ruins , with the skill and credit of which Parliament had not been able to despoil him ...
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... honoured friend and spiritual director of the whole family . My father resided some time at Paris to acquire the fashionable exercises ; and , as his temper was warm and social , he indulged in those pleasures for which the strictness ...
... honoured friend and spiritual director of the whole family . My father resided some time at Paris to acquire the fashionable exercises ; and , as his temper was warm and social , he indulged in those pleasures for which the strictness ...
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Page 277 - 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. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.
Page 276 - It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. 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.
Page 252 - 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.
Page 344 - picture of human manners, will outlive the 'Palace of the Escurial, and the imperial ' eagle of the House of Austria.
Page 277 - But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that, whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
Page 5 - 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.
Page 108 - That in the university of Oxford, the greater part of the public professors have for these many years given up altogether even the pretence of teaching.
Page 57 - To the University of Oxford I acknowledge no obligation; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life...
Page 130 - Curchod were the theme of universal applause. The report of such a prodigy awakened my curiosity ; I saw and loved. I found her learned without pedantry, lively in conversation, pure in sentiment, and elegant in manners; and the first sudden emotion was fortified by the habits and knowledge of a more familiar acquaintance.
Page 195 - But every man who rises above the common level has received two educations : the first from his teachers ; the second, more personal and important, from himself.