The Auto-biography of Edward Gibbon, Esq: Illustrated from His Letters, with Occasional Notes and NarrativesTurner & Hayden, 1846 - 381 pages |
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... English volume of heraldry , inscribed with the name of John Gibbon . From the title only Mr. Langer judged that it might be an acceptable present to his friend ; and he judged rightly . His manner is quaint and affected ; his order is ...
... English volume of heraldry , inscribed with the name of John Gibbon . From the title only Mr. Langer judged that it might be an acceptable present to his friend ; and he judged rightly . His manner is quaint and affected ; his order is ...
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... English friends of the Pretender wanted courage to join his standard , and his enemies ( the bulk of the people ) allowed him to advance into the heart of the kingdom . Without daring , perhaps without desiring , to aid the rebels , my ...
... English friends of the Pretender wanted courage to join his standard , and his enemies ( the bulk of the people ) allowed him to advance into the heart of the kingdom . Without daring , perhaps without desiring , to aid the rebels , my ...
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... English and Latin Grammar ( London , 1746 ) ; which , as a testimony of gratitude , he dedicated ( November 5th , 1745 ) to my father . The books are before me : from them the pupil may judge the preceptor ; and , upon the whole , his ...
... English and Latin Grammar ( London , 1746 ) ; which , as a testimony of gratitude , he dedicated ( November 5th , 1745 ) to my father . The books are before me : from them the pupil may judge the preceptor ; and , upon the whole , his ...
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... English story of Robinson Crusoe with the Arabian mance of Hai Ebn Yokhdam , which he might have read if the Latin version of Pocock . In the Automathes I cannot praise either the depth of thought or elegance of style ; but the book is ...
... English story of Robinson Crusoe with the Arabian mance of Hai Ebn Yokhdam , which he might have read if the Latin version of Pocock . In the Automathes I cannot praise either the depth of thought or elegance of style ; but the book is ...
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... English education ; and I was sent to Kingston - upon - Thames , to a school of about seventy boys , which was kept by Dr. Wooddeson and his assistants . Every time I have since passed over Putney Common , I have always noticed the spot ...
... English education ; and I was sent to Kingston - upon - Thames , to a school of about seventy boys , which was kept by Dr. Wooddeson and his assistants . Every time I have since passed over Putney Common , I have always noticed the spot ...
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Page 171 - that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished', and Mr Burke's Bill of Reform was framed with skill, 162 introduced with eloquence, and supported by numbers.
Page 7 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 5 - Who builds a church to God, and not to Fame, Will never mark the marble with his name : Go, search it there, where to be born and die, Of rich and poor makes all the history ; Enough, that Virtue fill'd the space between ; Prov'd by the ends of being, to have been.
Page 66 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate : I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son 9 ; (8) my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life.
Page 139 - Our solid and increasing establishments in America, where we need less dread the inundation of Barbarians, promise a superior stability and duration to the English language.
Page 186 - I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Page 133 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October, 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the bare-footed friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Page 158 - I am at a loss how to describe the success of the work, without betraying the vanity of the writer. The first impression was exhausted in a few days; a second and third edition were scarcely adequate to the demand ; and the bookseller's property was twice invaded by the pirates of Dublin. My book was on every table, and almost on every toilette ; the historian was crowned by the taste or fashion of the day j nor was the general voice disturbed by the barking of any profane critic.
Page 26 - My own introduction to the university of Oxford forms a new sera in my life ; and at the distance of forty years I still remember my first emotions of surprise and satisfaction. In my fifteenth year I felt myself suddenly raised from a boy to a man ; the persons whom I respected as my superiors in age and academical rank, entertained me with every mark of attention and civility ; and my vanity was flattered by the velvet cap and silk gown, which distinguish a gentleman commoner from a plebeian student.
Page 54 - As soon as I understood the principles, I relinquished for ever the pursuit of the mathematics ; nor can I lament that I desisted, before my mind was hardened by the habit of rigid demonstration, so destructive of the finer feelings of moral evidence, which must, however, determine the actions and opinions of our lives.