 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...allow about fifteen years.f I shall soon enter into that period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience...duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and foftune established on a solid basis. J In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the... | |
 | Granville Penn - Christian life - 1812 - 332 pages
...allow me about fifteen years. I shafl " soon enter the period which, as the most '' agreeable of his long life, was selected by " the judgment and experience of the sage " Fontenelle." But the sage Fontenelle said so, upon the retrospect, and not on the prospect. Mr. Gibbon died within... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...allow about fifteen years.* 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 Fonfancy with the hopes of charming ages yet to come. Foretcl me that some tender maid, whose grandmother... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...allow about fifteen years-f . I shall soon enter into that period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid liasisf . In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...allow about fifteen years.* I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and. experience...eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happmess to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled,... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...allow about fifteen years.* I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience...nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature aeason in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...shall soon enter into that period which, as the mo»t agreeable of his long life, was selected by tie judgment and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His...approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who axes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...of others would fail to do so hereafter. After quoting the opinion of Fontenelle, who, he observes, fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our dutiea fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fume and fortune established on a solid basis, he says,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1837 - 882 pages
...allow about fifteen years.* I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.-f In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...allow about fifteen years.* I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgment and experience...fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in wliich our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame... | |
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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... 
