The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His Life and Writings, 1. köideJ. Murray, 1814 |
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... mind , I hesitated to under- take the task of selecting and preparing his Manuscripts for the press . The warmth of my early and long attachment to Mr. Gibbon made me conscious of a partiality , which it was not proper to indulge ...
... mind , I hesitated to under- take the task of selecting and preparing his Manuscripts for the press . The warmth of my early and long attachment to Mr. Gibbon made me conscious of a partiality , which it was not proper to indulge ...
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... mind of their Author , in such a manner as justly to increase the number of his admirers . I have not been solicitous to garble or expunge passages which , to some , may appear trifling . Such passages will often , in the opinion of the ...
... mind of their Author , in such a manner as justly to increase the number of his admirers . I have not been solicitous to garble or expunge passages which , to some , may appear trifling . Such passages will often , in the opinion of the ...
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... mind resolved to watch over and improve itself . 66 66 The Journal is continued under different titles , and is sometimes very concise , and sometimes singularly detailed . One part of it is entitled My Journal , " another " Ephemerides ...
... mind resolved to watch over and improve itself . 66 66 The Journal is continued under different titles , and is sometimes very concise , and sometimes singularly detailed . One part of it is entitled My Journal , " another " Ephemerides ...
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... minds of men . We seem to have lived in the per- sons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend ... mind , he would not have nerves to publish them , and therefore that they should be posthumous ; -Ile answered ...
... minds of men . We seem to have lived in the per- sons of our forefathers ; it is the labour and reward of vanity to extend ... mind , he would not have nerves to publish them , and therefore that they should be posthumous ; -Ile answered ...
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... 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 the lists on the sub- ject of Christ's kingdom , and ...
... 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 the lists on the sub- ject of Christ's kingdom , and ...
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Page 6 - 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.
Page 212 - That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished"; and Mr.
Page 194 - The style of an author should be the image of his mind, but the choice and command of language is the fruit of exercise. Many experiments were made before I could hit the middle tone between a dull chronicle and a rhetorical declamation: three times did I compose the first chapter, and twice the second and third, before I was tolerably satisfied with their effect.
Page 122 - ... thorough profligate in principle as in practice, his life stained with every vice. and his conversation full of blasphemy and indecency. These morals he glories in — for shame is a weakness he has long since surmounted. He told us himself, that in this time of public dissension he was resolved to make his fortune.
Page 198 - The favour of mankind is most freely bestowed on a new acquaintance of any original merit; and the mutual surprise of the public and their favourite is productive of those warm sensibilities, which at a second meeting can no longer be rekindled. If I listened to the music of praise, I was more seriously satisfied with the approbation of my judges. The candour of Dr. Robertson embraced his disciple. A letter from Mr. Hume overpaid the labour of ten years, but I have never presumed to accept a place...
Page 176 - 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.
Page 221 - He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child.
Page 35 - The fellows or monks of my time were decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder : their days were filled by a scries of uniform form employments; the chapel and the hall, the coffee-house and the common room, till they retired, -weary and well satisfied, to a long slumber. From the toil of reading, or thinking, or writing, they had absolved their conscience...
Page liv - A lively desire of knowing and of recording our ancestors so generally prevails, that it must depend on the influence of some common principle in the minds of men.
Page 178 - 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.