 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 Seiten
...admire and pity, should have been less preuipitato iu condemning the moral character and conduct of a genius of her husband has exalted him to the most...friend ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy. Whatsoever have been the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 Seiten
...pity, should hare been less precipitate in condemning the moral character and conduct of a etrange. genius of her husband has exalted him to the most...friend ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy. Whatsoever have been the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 Seiten
...reclined on the bosom of a faithful friend ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy. Whatsoever have been the fruits of my educatien, they must be ascribed to the fortunate banishment which placed me at Lausanne. I have sometimes... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1849 - 708 Seiten
...genins of her husband has raised him to the most exalted situation in Europe. In every situation of life he has reclined on the bosom of a faithful friend ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy." — GIBBON, Autobiography, Miscellaneous... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - 1851 - 422 Seiten
...this inestimable treasure; and in the capital of taste and luxury, she resisted the temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence....on the bosom of a faithful friend; and Mademoiselle Curchad is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy.... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1853 - 420 Seiten
...genius of her husband has raised him to the most exalted situation in Europe. In every situation of life he has reclined on the bosom of a faithful friend ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy." — GIBBON, Autobiography, MiscilWorkt,... | |
 | Sir Archibald Alison - 1853 - 448 Seiten
...genius of her husband has raised him to the most exalted situation in Europe. In every situation of life he has reclined on the bosom of a faithful friend ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy." — GIBBON, Autobiography, M«sc,7laiiewu... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 556 Seiten
...this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted the temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence....friend ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy. Whatsoever have been the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...possess this inestimable treasure; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted tho temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence....friend; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy. 1 After spending nearly five... | |
 | William O. Blake - 1856 - 1124 Seiten
...this inestimable treasure ; and, in the capital of taste and luxury, she resisted the temptation of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence....exalted him to the most conspicuous station in Europe ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker.' In 1758, he returned to England, and took... | |
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A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted the temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence.... 
