 | 1796 - 622 Seiten
...our duties * fulfilled, our fame and fortune eftablifhed on a folid bafis. In * private converfation, that great and amiable man added the ' weight of his...be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and c many other men of letters. I am far more Jnclined to em* brace: than difpute this comfortable doctrine.... | |
 | 1797 - 610 Seiten
...our ambition l'atisfied, our fame and fortune eftabliflied on a lolid balls. In private converfation, that great and amiable man, added the weight of his...Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. I am far morc inclined to embrace than to dil'pute this comfortable do&rine. I will not fuppofe any premature... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 Seiten
...our ambition satisfied, our fame and foftune established on a solid basis. J In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his...letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to dispute this comfortable doctrine. I will not suppose any premature decay of the mind or body; but... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 Seiten
...our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.* In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his...letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to dispute this comfortable doctrine. I will not suppose any premature decay of the mind or body; but... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 Seiten
...ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid liasisf . In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience ; and this autumnal feKcity might be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. I am far... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 Seiten
...our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. f In private conversation that great and amiable " man added the weight of his...letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to dispute this comfortable doctrine. I will not suppose any premature decay of the mind or body ; but... | |
 | 1830 - 336 Seiten
...our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. \ In private conversation that great and amiable man added the weight of his...letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to dispute this comfortable doctrine. I will not suppose any premature decay of the mind or body j but... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 Seiten
...our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.-f In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his...letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to dispute this comfortable doctrine. I will not suppose any premature decay of the mind or body ; but... | |
 | Juvenal - 1837 - 306 Seiten
...our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his...; and this autumnal felicity might be exemplified by the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and other men of letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 Seiten
...our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.23 In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his...letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to dispute this comfortable doctrine. I will not suppose any premature decay of the mind or body ; but... | |
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In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience ; and this autumnal felicity might be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. 
