 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 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... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - English literature - 1911 - 488 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 pages
...application. 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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English language - 1912 - 516 pages
...nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to have 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... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - Recitations - 1914 - 372 pages
...our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and 15 fortune established on a solid basis. In private conversation, that great and amiable man...felicity might be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire,° Hume,0 and many other men of letters. I am far more inclined to embrace 20 than to dispute this comfortable... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Church history - 1916 - 1006 pages
...His choice is approved by the eloquent his" torian of nature, [Huffon,]w ho 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 "... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Commonplace-books - 1917 - 248 pages
...Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of Nature,4 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.5 I am far more Buffon, Hist. Nat., vii. 158-64. This was written at Lausanne in March, 1791,... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - English prose literature - 1920 - 272 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...calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, and our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. In private conversation, that great and amiable... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1924 - 222 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... | |
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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. 
