 | 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 - Historians - 1839 - 496 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.23 In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 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...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
...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...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Literature - 1840 - 382 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 to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our amhition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis "3. In private conversation,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Christian martyrs - 1851 - 592 pages
...Fontenclle. 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... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Christian martyrs - 1851 - 600 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...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... | |
 | Joseph Esmond Riddle - Faith - 1852 - 552 pages
...Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the elegant 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 - 1854 - 556 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.3 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. 
