 | W. N. P. Barbellion - 1919 - 322 Seiten
...reflecting on the bounty of Nature which cast his birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable...rank and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune — sleek, complacent, oleaginous and salacious old gentleman, how I would love to have bombed you... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1923 - 288 Seiten
...pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable...gifts of fortune. From my birth I have enjoyed the rights of primogeniture; but I was succeeded by five brothers and one sister, all of whom were snatched... | |
 | Helga Schwalm - 2007 - 422 Seiten
...ofmyfate, which has cast by birth in an age of science and Philosophy, in a free and civilized country, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts offortune. Of this family, the primitive seat was in the country of Kent. It is proved by authentic... | |
 | Belgravia - 1867 - 548 Seiten
...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 endowed with the gifts of fortune." There is a pretty close parallel between this and the remark of Robert Oastler to the great Sir Robert... | |
 | 1869 - 606 Seiten
...Putney on the 27th of April, os, 1737, enjoyed from his birth the rights of primogeniture ; but he was succeeded by five brothers and one sister, all of whom were snatched away in their infancy. Their names are to be found in the parishregister of that pleasant old village on Thames's bank ; but... | |
 | 1853 - 852 Seiten
...(he should have said Providence), 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 endowed with the gifts of fortune." This was written more than sixty years ago, at an epoch which, however advanced, must be pronounced... | |
 | 1881 - 842 Seiten
...pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable...rank and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.' " This proneness of people to make Dr. Watts responsible for all these juvenile poems is curious. CH.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1907 - 412 Seiten
...pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and Philosophy, in a family of honourable...rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune. Of this family the primitive seat was in the County of Kent. It is proved by authentic records that... | |
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My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor 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 family of honourable rank, and... 
