Memoirs of Edward Gibbon Written by Himself and a Selection from His Letters with Occasional Notes and Narrative by John Lord SheffieldG. Routedge, 1891 - 446 páginas |
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... Sheffield in Ireland . Lord Sheffield was a country gentleman of good business habits who had some promptings to political ambition , and wrote pamphlets , but ob- tained no firm footing in political life . He lived at Sheffield Place or ...
... Sheffield in Ireland . Lord Sheffield was a country gentleman of good business habits who had some promptings to political ambition , and wrote pamphlets , but ob- tained no firm footing in political life . He lived at Sheffield Place or ...
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... place of mother , and some of his letters to her are here included in Lord Sheffield's collection . She died in 1786 . The Philip Francis with whom young Edward Gibbon was placed at Esher in January 1752 was an Irishman , son of a Dean ...
... place of mother , and some of his letters to her are here included in Lord Sheffield's collection . She died in 1786 . The Philip Francis with whom young Edward Gibbon was placed at Esher in January 1752 was an Irishman , son of a Dean ...
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... Sheffield Place , cost fifty pounds , and Gibbon thought that much . But no portrait of Gibbon painted from without can equal in value this one , painted from within . Gibbon , in his young days at Lausanne , reasoned himself , with ...
... Sheffield Place , cost fifty pounds , and Gibbon thought that much . But no portrait of Gibbon painted from without can equal in value this one , painted from within . Gibbon , in his young days at Lausanne , reasoned himself , with ...
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... place , sought to be appointed Secretary of Embassy at Paris . He was writing his fourth volume , and desired to ... Sheffield and his family visited Gibbon at Lausanne . 1793. Lady Sheffield died in April . England in May . Gibbon ...
... place , sought to be appointed Secretary of Embassy at Paris . He was writing his fourth volume , and desired to ... Sheffield and his family visited Gibbon at Lausanne . 1793. Lady Sheffield died in April . England in May . Gibbon ...
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Edward Gibbon John Holroyd Earl of Sheffield, Henry Morley. own monument in the Temple Church , the monsters vanish , and the three scallop - shells resume their proper and hereditary place . Our alliances by marriage it is not ...
Edward Gibbon John Holroyd Earl of Sheffield, Henry Morley. own monument in the Temple Church , the monsters vanish , and the three scallop - shells resume their proper and hereditary place . Our alliances by marriage it is not ...
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Página 40 - 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.
Página 150 - After a sleepless night, I trod, with a lofty step, the ruins of the Forum; each memorable spot where Romulus stood, or Tully spoke, or Caesar fell, was at once present to my eye; and several days of intoxication were lost or enjoyed before I could descend to a cool and minute investigation.
Página 103 - After a painful struggle I yielded to my fate: I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son; my wound was insensibly healed by time, absence, and the habits of a new life. My cure was accelerated by a faithful report of the tranquillity and cheerfulness of the lady herself, and my love subsided in friendship and esteem.
Página 196 - I beg leave to subscribe my assent to Mr. Burke's creed on the revolution of France. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for Church establishments.
Página 63 - I am tempted to enter a protest against the trite and lavish praise of the happiness of our boyish years, which is echoed with so much affectation in the world. That happiness I have never known, that time I have never regretted...
Página 383 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Página 103 - A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune 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 conspicuous station in Europe. In every change of prosperity and disgrace he has reclined on the bosom of a faithful friend ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister,...
Página 66 - To the university of Oxford / acknowledge no obligation ; and she will as cheerfully renounce me for a son. as I am willing to disclaim her for a mother. I spent fourteen months at Magdalen College ; they proved the fourteen months the most idle and unprofitable of my whole life...
Página 90 - But every man who rises above the common level has received two educations : the first from his teachers ; the second, more personal and important, from himself.
Página 151 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted 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.