 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...were inscribed on one of the ten thousand tickets, should we be perfectly easy I tencllc. tcnelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.* In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...fifteen years.* I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and. experience of the sage...eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happmess to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled,... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...fifteen years.* I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience of the sage...nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature aeason in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied,... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...of others would fail to do so hereafter. After quoting the opinion of Fontenelle, who, he observes, fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our dutiea fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fume and fortune established on a solid basis, he says,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1837 - 882 pages
...fifteen years.* I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience of the sage...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.-f In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...fifteen years.* I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience of the sage...fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in wliich our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...fifteen years.* I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience of the sage...who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season hi which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our... | |
 | Juvenal - Latin poetry - 1837 - 306 pages
...I am now entering," says Gibbon, " that period, which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience of the sage...choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, Buffon, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...fifteen years.22 I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience of the sage...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.23 In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 pages
...perfectly easy ' I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience of the sage...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis l3. In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
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... and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season, in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our... 
