...hundred and thirty-seven ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, Esq. and of Judith Porten.* My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently...

...OS, in the year 1737 ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, esq., and of Judith Porten. My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in au age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently...

...historian, but their respective ground» of satisfaction are widely different. " My lot," says Gibbon, " might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant," he omits to say or a " heathen." He reflects on " the bounty of Nature"; Mrs. Gilbert, religiously...

...fixed hia existence •when and where it did, attended by so many advantages. " My lot," says he, " might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant; nor din Irefleet without pleasure on the bounty of nature (he should have said Providence), which cast...

...confessions" of the late " Lion :" — they shall stand unmixed " with baser matter." THE COCKNEY. "Mr lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant," says the grateful Gibbon ; "nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast...

...confessions" of the late " Lion :" — they shall stand unmixed " with baser matter." THE COCKNEY. "Mr lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant," says the grateful Gibbon ; " nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast...

...can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a...rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune." How much of character there is in this brief notice ! Half a century elapses, and we find in the same...

...coincidences in our respective positions and circumstances are certainly remarkable: — " I cannot reflect without pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently...

...coincidences in our respective positions and circumstances are certainly remarkable : — " I cannot reflect without pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently...

...coincidences in our respective positions and circumstances are certainly remarkable: — M I cannot reflect without pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently...