 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...hundred and thirty-seven ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, Esq. and of Judith Porten,* My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of for^ tune. From my birth I have enjoyed the right of primogeniture ; but I was succeeded by five brothers... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...thirtyseven ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, esq. and of Judith Porten*. My>lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant...bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age nt' science and philosophy; in a family of honourable rank, and decently... | |
 | 1840 - 772 pages
...himself, as it were, with a recipient for his gratitude, such as it was. My lot [he says] might have heen that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant. Nor can I reflect, without ple^pre, on the hounty of Nature, which cast iny hirth in a free and civilized country, in an age of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1826 - 594 pages
...hundred and thirty-seven ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, Esq. and of Judith Porten. * My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, whicl cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of .science and philosophy ; in i family... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...27. Charles Blount, 1654, Upper Holloway, Edward Gibbon, 1737, OS Putney. Nicholas Sells, 1737, Pora. My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...peasant : nor can I reflect without pleasure on the hounty of nature which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...are Mrs. Hutchinson's effusions of gratitude. The same sentiment is expressed by Gibbon, who says, " My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor cm I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...hundred and thirty-seven ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, Esq. and of Judith Porten.* .My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...hundred and thirty-seven ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, Esq. and of Judith Porten.* My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1837 - 1304 pages
...can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a...rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune." In infancy, his constitution was uncommonly feeble, but he was nursed with much tenderness by his maiden... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1838 - 594 pages
...passage in that most beautiful example of autobiography — Gibbon's Memoirs (published in 1795): — ' My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and abundantly endowed with the gifts of * Extremely small ; and though we believe naturally well. shaped,... | |
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My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and... 
