The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Том 1T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813 |
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... foon proved successful ; on Christmas day , 1754 , after " a full conviction , " Mr. Gibbon received the facrament in the church of Lausanne : and here it was , he informs us , that he suspended his religious inquiries , acquiefcing ...
... foon proved successful ; on Christmas day , 1754 , after " a full conviction , " Mr. Gibbon received the facrament in the church of Lausanne : and here it was , he informs us , that he suspended his religious inquiries , acquiefcing ...
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... foon forgotten . Of its merits , he speaks in his Memoirs , with a mixture of praise and blame , but the former predominates , and with juftice . Had the French language been then as common in the literary world as it is now , fo ...
... foon forgotten . Of its merits , he speaks in his Memoirs , with a mixture of praise and blame , but the former predominates , and with juftice . Had the French language been then as common in the literary world as it is now , fo ...
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... foon to choose some subject of history , which may do me credit , if well treated ; and whofe importance , even though my work fhould be unfuccefsful , may confole me for employiug too much time in a fpecies of compofition for which I ...
... foon to choose some subject of history , which may do me credit , if well treated ; and whofe importance , even though my work fhould be unfuccefsful , may confole me for employiug too much time in a fpecies of compofition for which I ...
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... foon after , were fcarcely adequate to the demand . To ufe his own language , his book was on every table , and almost on every toilette ; the hiftorian was crowned by the taste or fashion of the day . From the ample praises of Dr ...
... foon after , were fcarcely adequate to the demand . To ufe his own language , his book was on every table , and almost on every toilette ; the hiftorian was crowned by the taste or fashion of the day . From the ample praises of Dr ...
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... foon as I found that this empty noise was mifchievous only in the intention , my fear was con- verted into indignation , and every feeling of indignation or curiofity has long fince fubfided into pure and placid indifference . " It may ...
... foon as I found that this empty noise was mifchievous only in the intention , my fear was con- verted into indignation , and every feeling of indignation or curiofity has long fince fubfided into pure and placid indifference . " It may ...
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Стр. xxx - 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 walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Стр. xxx - After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country, the lake and the mountains. The air was temperate, the sky was serene, the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters and all nature was silent.
Стр. xxx - ... berceau or covered walk of acacias which commands a prospect of the country the lake and the mountains the air was temperate the sky was serene the silver orb of the moon was reflected from the waters and all nature was silent i will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and perhaps the establishment of my fame...
Стр. v - My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.
Стр. 47 - The deities of a thousand groves and a thousand streams possessed, in peace, their local and respective influence ; nor could the Roman who deprecated the wrath of the Tiber deride the Egyptian who presented his offering to the beneficent genius of the Nile.
Стр. 44 - Rome by observing that the empire was above two thousand miles in breadth, from the wall of Antoninus and the northern limits of Dacia to Mount Atlas and the tropic of Cancer; that it extended in length more than three thousand miles, from the Western Ocean to the Euphrates; that it was situated in the finest part of the Temperate Zone, between the twenty-fourth and fifty-sixth degrees...
Стр. 131 - But the empire of the Romans filled the world, and, when that empire fell into the hands of a single person, the world became a safe and dreary prison for his enemies.
Стр. 1 - The gentle, but powerful, influence of laws and manners had gradually cemented the union of the provinces. Their peaceful inhabitants enjoyed and abused the advantages of wealth and luxury.
Стр. 208 - ... revenge of Severus with the generous clemency of Fingal ; the timid and brutal cruelty of Caracalla, with the bravery, the tenderness, the elegant genius of Ossian; the mercenary chiefs who, from motives of fear or interest, served under the Imperial standard, with the freeborn warriors who started to arms at the voice of the king of Morven ; if, in a word, we contemplated the untutored Caledonians, glowing with the warm virtues of nature, and the degenerate Romans, polluted with the mean vices...
Стр. vi - I arrived at Oxford with a stock of erudition that might have puzzled a doctor, and a degree of ignorance of which a schoolboy would have been ashamed.