| Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 600 Seiten
...the past is no more — and our prospect of futurity dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last, but the laws of probability — so true in general,...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,... | |
| Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 592 Seiten
...possibly be my last, but the laws of probability—so true in general, so fallacious in particular—still allow about fifteen years. I shall soon enter into...selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontenclle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness... | |
| Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1852 - 584 Seiten
...the past is no more — and our prospect of futurity dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last, but the laws of probability — so true in general,...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,... | |
| Joseph Esmond Riddle - 1852 - 552 Seiten
...the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general,...the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the elegant historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 468 Seiten
...within the four-andtwenty hours, concludes that a chance which falls below or rises above ten thousand the period which, as the most agreeable of his long...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,... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 Seiten
...the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtfid. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general,...fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years.2 I shall soon enter into 9 Mr. d'Alembert relates that, as he was walking in the gardens of... | |
| 1857 - 598 Seiten
...the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last ; but the laws of probability, so true in general,...allow about fifteen years. I shall soon enter into that period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 Seiten
...honour by those who never knew nor saw me. and whom I shall neither know nor "in . .1. _.;«• _t . my last: but the laws of probability, so true in general,...enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of my long life, was selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 Seiten
...the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last ; but the laws of probability, so true in general,...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,... | |
| 1878 - 312 Seiten
...past is no more ; JL and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last ; but the laws of probability, so true in general,...by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our XLI. moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties... | |
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