 It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that 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 berccau, or covered...  A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen - Page 220by George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853Full view - About this book
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...moment of conception ; I shall now comaemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, jr rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of leven and twelve, that I wrote the last Une of the last page, in i summer-house in my garden. After... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pages
...to mark the moment of conception: I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June,...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceait, or covered walk of acacias, 1 Gibbon's attack on Christianity in his otherwise great work... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 512 pages
...familiar, are sufficiently beautiful to justify their re-transcription. " It was on the day," he writes, "or rather night of the 27th of June 1787, between...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a ber$eau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
 | W. O. Blake - 1856 - 1016 pages
...to have arrived at the close of his literary labors with mingled feelings of regret and delight. 6 It was/ he says, ' on the day, or rather night, of...and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page9 in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau,... | |
 | Nimrod - 1926 - 374 pages
...Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire." " It was," says he, " on the day, or rather the night, of the 27th June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve,...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The... | |
 | 1928 - 472 pages
...of finishing his work of many years: It was on the day, or rather the night, of the twenty-seventh of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve,...down my pen I took several turns in a berceau, or a covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Laughlin - 1928 - 492 pages
...hours of eleven and twelve, after having written ' 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 covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The... | |
 | Clara Elizabeth Laughlin - 1928 - 492 pages
...until October, 1772, it was a long, long 'pull' that was over when he laid down his pen here on the night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, after having written ' the last lines of the last page in a summer house in my garden. After laying... | |
 | 1867 - 1052 pages
...of his sensations on accomplishing his great work. "It was on the day, or rather night, of June 27, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that...summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, 1 took several turns in a covered walk of acacias. I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 2000 - 470 pages
..."I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day or rather the night of 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and...lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. ... I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and perhaps the establishment... | |
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