 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...wretched is the writer and wretched will be the work where daily diligence is stimulated by daily hunger. mature season in which our passions are supposed to...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid ba'iis. I am far more inclined to embrace than to dispute this comfortable 5 doctrine. I will not suppose... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...particular," still allowed him about fifteen years of life. He looked forward to this closing period — "the mature season in which our passions are supposed...calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied " — with a melancholy pleasure. But he was to be disappointed ; the laws of probability proved fallacious... | |
 | Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 pages
...nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to hare calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied....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 - Historians - 1900 - 398 pages
...Goldsmith, all poor men, and most of them not unacquainted with a garret.] supposed to be calmed,1 our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, 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... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - Death - 1902 - 316 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... | |
 | England - 1881 - 862 pages
...His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature [Button], 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... | |
 | William George Waters - English literature - 1906 - 342 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 desires fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. In private... | |
 | John Bigelow - France - 1913 - 632 pages
...distinctions. The great historian of nature Buffon, places the crowning moment of human happiness at the mature season, in which our passions are supposed...— our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, pur fame and fortune established on a solid basis. "All these conditions of happiness, Sir, you have... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - Age - 1910 - 358 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, ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. In private conversation that... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature,1 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... | |
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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. 
