 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...OS, in the year 1737 ; 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 au age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1881 - 704 pages
...historian, but their respective ground» of satisfaction are widely different. " My lot," says Gibbon, " might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant," he omits to say or a " heathen." He reflects on " the bounty of Nature"; Mrs. Gilbert, religiously... | |
 | Douglas William Jerrold - 1853 - 328 pages
...confessions" of the late " Lion :" — they shall stand unmixed " with baser matter." THE COCKNEY. "Mr lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant," says the grateful Gibbon ; "nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1853 - 330 pages
...confessions" of the late " Lion :" — they shall stand unmixed " with baser matter." THE COCKNEY. "Mr lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant," says the grateful Gibbon ; " nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast... | |
 | 1853 - 774 pages
...fixed hia existence •when and where it did, attended by so many advantages. " My lot," says he, " might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant; nor din Irefleet without pleasure on the bounty of nature (he should have said Providence), which cast... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 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." How much of character there is in this brief notice ! Half a century elapses, and we find in the same... | |
 | Sir George Thomas Staunton - 1856 - 248 pages
...coincidences in our respective positions and circumstances are certainly remarkable: — " I cannot 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 decently... | |
 | sir George Thomas Staunton (2nd bart.) - 1856 - 254 pages
...coincidences in our respective positions and circumstances are certainly remarkable: — M I cannot 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 decently... | |
 | Sir George Thomas Staunton - Great Britain - 1856 - 256 pages
...coincidences in our respective positions and circumstances are certainly remarkable : — " I cannot 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 decently... | |
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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... 
