 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 458 pages
...abhoste doceri." I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...— the ' History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire : ' — " 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... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1848 - 394 pages
...something affecting in his record of the completion of his great work. " 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 478 pages
...and not less interesting record of his feelings at its conclusion: — " 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... | |
 | 1849 - 602 pages
...shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th ar dead-reckoning lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. Afier laying down my pen, I took several turns... | |
 | 1849 - 844 pages
...shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last linea of th« last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns... | |
 | 1849 - 822 pages
...commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th Jane 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... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1851 - 790 pages
...conception ; I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. 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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...his task. Of this event he himself has left us the following account : ' 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... | |
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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 berceau, or covered... 
