 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...genius of her husband has exalted him to the most conspicuous station in Europe. In every change of prosperity and disgrace he has reclined on the bosom...friend ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Neckar, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy. Whatsoever have been the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1811 - 542 pages
...genius of her husband has exalted him to the most conspicuous station in Europe. In every change of prosperity and disgrace he has reclined on the bosom...and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy." In the course of this residence at Lausanne, Gibbon was converted again to the religion of his parents.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...pity, should have been less precipitate in condemning the moral character and conduct of a stranger. ho he has reclined on the bosom of a faithful friend ; and Mademoiselle Curehod is now the wife of M. Neckcr, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy.... | |
 | 1816 - 658 pages
...apology for introducing his own words. Speaking of his first residence at Lausanne, he says, ' Whatever have been the fruits of my education, they must be...fortunate banishment, which placed me 'at Lausanne.— If my childish revolt against the religion of my country had not stripped me in time of my academical... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1816 - 678 pages
...apology for introducing his own words. Speaking of his first residence at Lausanne, he says, ' Whatever have been the fruits of my education, they must be...fortunate banishment, which placed me at Lausanne. — • If my childish revolt against the religion of my country had not stripped me in time of my... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pages
...genius of her husband has exalted him to toe most conspicuous station in Europe. In every change of prosperity and disgrace he has reclined on the bosom of a faithful friend ; and Mademoiselle Cure hod is now the wife of M. Neckar, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...husband had exalted him to the most conspicuous station in Europe. In every change of prosperity »nd disgrace he has reclined on the bosom of a faithful friend ; and Mademoiselle Curcliod n now the wife of M. Neckar, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the Fr> nch monarchy.... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...with the Greek and Latin languages. Speaking of his first residence at Lausanne, he says : " Whatever have been the fruits of my education, they must be...fortunate banishment which placed me at Lausanne. If my childish revolt against the religion of my country had not stripped me in time of my academical... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...genius of her husband has exalted him to the most conspicuous station in Europe. In every change of prosperity and disgrace he has reclined on the bosom...fortunate banishment which placed me at Lausanne. I liave sometimes applied to my own fate the verses of Pindar, which remind an Olympic champion that... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...with the Greek and Latin languages. Speaking of his first residence at Lausanne, he says : " Whatever have been the fruits of my education, they must be...fortunate banishment which placed me at Lausanne. If my childish revolt against the religion of my country had not stripped me in time of my academical... | |
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... 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. The genius of her husband has exalted him to the most... 
