 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...might have been that of a slave, n. savage, or a peasant; n.'T can I reflect without pleasure on tl~ie bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an aq-e of science and philosophy, in a family of honorable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...hundred and 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,...in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honorable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune. * * So feeble was my constitution,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...hundred and thirtyseven; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gihbon, Esq., and of Judith Porten. My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure ou the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...hundred and 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,...in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honorable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune. * * So feeble was my constitution,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...hundred and thirtyeeven; 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,...in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honorable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune. * * So feeble was my constitution,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...the marriage of Edward Gibbon, Es<|., and of Judith Porten. My lot might have been that of a skive, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without...in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honorable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune. • * So feeble was my constitution,... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - English poetry - 1865 - 394 pages
...irapa roll aXAoicriv eiSowjs KOKO, "Acr/Aevos e^ois av, NIKOX£Cov, a vvv <?^e is -"—MENANDER. " My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant, nor can I refleet withont pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1867 - 824 pages
...desire to shine. Gibbon was born at Putney on the 27th of ApriMO. S.), 1737. As he justly observes!: "My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ;" but, in fact, his father was a man of old family and some property. His grandfather, Edward Gibbon,... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 378 pages
...of view none could be better fitted for the office than Gibbon. Gibbon says, in his Autobiography, " My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure [he does not say, thankfulness] on the bounty of nature [he does not say, God], which cast my birth... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1877 - 238 pages
...S., 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,...in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honorable rank and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune. From my birth I have enjoyed the right... | |
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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... 
