 | Curiosities and wonders - 1796 - 622 pages
...our duties * fulfilled, our fame and fortune eftablifhed on a folid bafis. In * private converfation, that great and amiable man added the ' weight of his...be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and c many other men of letters. I am far more Jnclined to em* brace: than difpute this comfortable doctrine.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed...duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and foftune established on a solid basis. J In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...tcnelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed...our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.* In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience ; and this... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid liasisf . In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who axes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed...our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. | In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience ; and... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature aeason in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our...our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. \ In private conversation that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience ; and this... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...so hereafter. After quoting the opinion of Fontenelle, who, he observes, fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our dutiea fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fume and fortune established on a solid basis, he says,... | |
 | Juvenal - Latin poetry - 1837 - 306 pages
...: his choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, Buffon, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed...our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience ; and this... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1837 - 882 pages
...Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.-f In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season hi which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.-f In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
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His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. 
