 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 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, so fallacious in particular, still allow me about fifteen years,72 and I shall soon enter into the 71 In the first of ancient or modern Romances... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 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, so fallacious in particular, still allow nie about fifteen years,73 and I shall soon enter into the 71 In the first of ancient or modern Romances... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 720 Seiten
...by those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see."— Book xiii. chap. 'I. general, so fallacious in particular, still allow...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 - 1898 - 364 Seiten
...probability, so true in general so fallacious in particular, still allow me about fifteen years, and I shall soon enter- into the period which, as the...selected by the judgment and experience of the sage 25 Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 370 Seiten
...as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience of the sage 25 Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent...historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the 1 A sentence is here omitted since it occurs, in a slightly different form, in Memoir C., see p. 163.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 Seiten
...past is no more, and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This 20 day may possibly be my last ; but the laws of probability, so true in general so fallacious in particular, still allow me about fifteen years, and I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 Seiten
...would be the signal of my immediate departure." He returned to England in 1793. He estimated that " the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular," still allowed him about fifteen years of life. He looked forward to this closing period — "the mature season... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 Seiten
...the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may potribly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general,...fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years.4 I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of my long life, was selected... | |
 | Annie Barnett - 1900 - 1060 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, so fallacious in particular, still allow me about fifteen years. I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - 1902 - 316 Seiten
...and doubtful. 1 From letter written to Arthur Young about same period. This day may poss1bly be 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... | |
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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 Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature... 
