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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... style after 1781 , when his friend , succeeding to that barony , became Lord Sheffield . It was not until eight years after Gibbon's death that his friend was , in 1802 , included in the English peerage as Baron Sheffield of Sheffield ...
... style after 1781 , when his friend , succeeding to that barony , became Lord Sheffield . It was not until eight years after Gibbon's death that his friend was , in 1802 , included in the English peerage as Baron Sheffield of Sheffield ...
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... style and order , to make the whole a classic book " which may preserve your name and benefit your country . " But he is remembered only as the friend of Gibbon and the editor of these Memoirs . It was in 1796 , two years after Gibbon's ...
... style and order , to make the whole a classic book " which may preserve your name and benefit your country . " But he is remembered only as the friend of Gibbon and the editor of these Memoirs . It was in 1796 , two years after Gibbon's ...
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... style shall be simple and familiar : but style is the image of character ; and the habits of correct writing may produce , without labour or design , the appearance of art and study . My own amusement is my motive , and will be my ...
... style shall be simple and familiar : but style is the image of character ; and the habits of correct writing may produce , without labour or design , the appearance of art and study . My own amusement is my motive , and will be my ...
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... style and title of Blue - mantle Pursuivant at Arms . In this office he enjoyed near fifty years the rare felicity of uniting , in the same pursuit , his duty and inclination : his name is remembered in the College , and many of his ...
... style and title of Blue - mantle Pursuivant at Arms . In this office he enjoyed near fifty years the rare felicity of uniting , in the same pursuit , his duty and inclination : his name is remembered in the College , and many of his ...
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... style forcible and clear ; and had not his vigorous mind been clouded by enthusiasm , he might be ranked with the most agreeable and ingenious writers of the times . While the Bangorian controversy was a fashionable theme , he entered ...
... style forcible and clear ; and had not his vigorous mind been clouded by enthusiasm , he might be ranked with the most agreeable and ingenious writers of the times . While the Bangorian controversy was a fashionable theme , he entered ...
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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.