| Edmund Burke - History - 1790 - 646 pages
...earth, to traverfe the ocean, and to meafure the heavens. His progrefs in the improvement and exercife of his mental and corporeal faculties has been irregular and various ; infinitely flow in the beginning, and increafing by degrees with redoubled velocity : ages of laborious afcent... | |
| History - 1790 - 562 pages
...earth, to traverfe the ocean^ and to meafure the heavens. His progrefs in the improvement and exercife of his mental and corporeal faculties has been irregular and various, infinitely flow in the beginning, and increafmg by degrees with redoubled velolocity : ages of laborious afcent... | |
| History - 1790 - 566 pages
...earth, to traverfe the ocean, and to meafure the heavens. His progrefs in the improvement and exercife of his mental and corporeal faculties has been irregular and various, infinitely flow in the beginning, and increasing by degrees with redoubled ve!olocity : ages of laborious afcent... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1792 - 462 pages
...who had acquired fome arts and initruilKilts. heavens. His progrefs in the improvement and exercife of his mental and corporeal faculties " has been irregular and various ; infinitely flow in the beginning, and increasing by degrees with redoubled velocity : ages of laborious afcent... | |
| Richard Joseph Sulivan (Sie) - France - 1794 - 542 pages
...heavens. In the progress and improvement of his mental and corporeal faculties, he has been seen to have been irregular, and various ; infinitely slow in the...with redoubled velocity : ages of laborious ascent liave been followed by moments of rapid decline ; and thus the several climates of the globe have felt... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 448 pages
...instruments. heavens. His progress in the improvement ar.c exercise of his mental and corporeal faculties h;is been irregular and various ; infinitely slow in the...laborious ascent have been followed by a moment of rapid downfa I ; and the several climates of the globe have felt the vicissitudes of light and darkness.... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1806 - 446 pages
...these savages, who had acquired tome arcs and instruments. h.eavens. His progress in the improvement exercise of his mental and corporeal faculties * has...with redoubled velocity : ages of laborious ascent have'becn followed by a moment of rapid downfal ; and the several climates of the globe have felt the... | |
| David Irving - English language - 1821 - 336 pages
...fertilise the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens. His progress in the improvement and exercise of his mental and corporeal faculties has...followed by a moment of rapid downfall ; and the several ^limates of the globe have felt the vicissitudes of light •ad ..ni«! darkness. Vet the experience... | |
| Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1821 - 528 pages
...to measure the heavens. His progress in the improvement arid exercise of his mental and corpo-. real faculties' has been irregular and various; infinitely...laborious ascent have been followed by a moment of rapid downfal ; and the several climates of the globe have felt the vicissitudes of light and darkness. Yet... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 486 pages
...fertilise the earth, to traverse the ocean, and to measure the heavens. His progress in the improvement and exercise of his mental and corporeal faculties has...laborious ascent have been followed by a moment of rapid downfal; and the several climates of the globe have felt the vicissitudes of light and darkness. Yet... | |
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