 | 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 - 1825 - 338 pages
...Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happmess to the mature season in which our passions are supposed...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 ; and... | |
 | Art - 1834 - 602 pages
...others would fail to do 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
...the sage Fontenelle : his choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, Buffon, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which...; and this autumnal felicity might be exemplified by the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and other men of letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1837 - 882 pages
...experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in wliich our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties...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, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season, in which...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.23 In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season, in which...our fame and fortune established on a solid basis '3. In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience ; and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 pages
...experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season, in which...our fame and fortune established on a solid basis l3. In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience ; and... | |
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... and experience of the sage 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 to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our... 
