The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, Volume 1J. Murray, 1814 - Authors, English |
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... labour - not with an affected frankness - but with a genuine confession of his little foibles and peculiarities , and a good - humoured and natural display of his own conduct and opinions . Mr. Gibbon began a Journal , a work distinct ...
... labour - not with an affected frankness - but with a genuine confession of his little foibles and peculiarities , and a good - humoured and natural display of his own conduct and opinions . Mr. Gibbon began a Journal , a work distinct ...
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... labour or design , the appearance of art and study . My own amusement is my motive , and will be my reward : and if these sheets are communicated to some dis- creet and indulgent friends , they will be secreted from the public eye till ...
... labour or design , the appearance of art and study . My own amusement is my motive , and will be my reward : and if these sheets are communicated to some dis- creet and indulgent friends , they will be secreted from the public eye till ...
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... labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevi- ty . Our imagination is always active to enlarge the narrow circle in which Nature has confined us . Fifty or an hundred years may be allotted to an individual ; but ...
... labour and reward of vanity to extend the term of this ideal longevi- ty . Our imagination is always active to enlarge the narrow circle in which Nature has confined us . Fifty or an hundred years may be allotted to an individual ; but ...
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... labours and pleasures of a rural life : nor is it in my power to follow the advice of the poet , in an inquiry after a name— " Go ! search it there , where to be born , and die , Of rich and poor makes all the history , " so recent is ...
... labours and pleasures of a rural life : nor is it in my power to follow the advice of the poet , in an inquiry after a name— " Go ! search it there , where to be born , and die , Of rich and poor makes all the history , " so recent is ...
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... labour he sings , in a strain of self - exultation ; " Usque huc corrigitur Romana Blasonia per me ; Verborumque dehinc barbara forma cadat . Hic liber , in meritum si forsitan incidet usum , Testis ritè meæ sedulitatis erit . Quicquid ...
... labour he sings , in a strain of self - exultation ; " Usque huc corrigitur Romana Blasonia per me ; Verborumque dehinc barbara forma cadat . Hic liber , in meritum si forsitan incidet usum , Testis ritè meæ sedulitatis erit . Quicquid ...
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Page 6 - 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 212 - That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished"; and Mr.
Page 194 - 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.
Page 122 - ... 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.
Page 198 - 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...
Page 176 - 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.
Page 221 - 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.
Page 35 - 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...
Page liv - 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.
Page 178 - 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.