 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 620 pages
...man was not a chapter of contradictions ; each part of his nature was in harmony with all the rest. " Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt...from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood ; " but he had no restraining principles, and looked with contempt on those who had. Priding himself... | |
 | George Bancroft - United States - 1884 - 626 pages
...man was not a chapter of contradictions ; each part of his nature was in harmony with all the rest. " Perhaps no human being was ever more perfectly exempt...from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood ; " but he had no restraining principles, and looked with contempt on those who had. Priding himself... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1885 - 752 pages
...enthusiasm, and the gentleness of his manners invited friendship. 'I n'lmired,' ' says Mr. Gibbon, all the softness and simplicity of a child: no human being ever was more free from any taint of malignity,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pages
...788), Mr. Fox gave me two days of free and private society.2 He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation, while I admired the powers...the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no 1 Me'moire Secret de la Cour de Berlin. a See letter in the Continuation, October I, 1788. human being... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pages
...1788), Mr. Fox gave me two days of free and private society.2 He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation, while I admired the powers...the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no 1 Me"moire Secret de la Cour de Berlin. s See letter in the Continuation, October I, 1788. human being... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 pages
...1788), Mr. Fox gave me two days of free and private society.2 He seemed to feel7"and even to envy, the happiness of my -situation, while I admired the powers...the softness and simplicity of a child. Perhaps no 1 Me'moire Secret de la Cour de Berlin. « See letter in the Continuation, October i, 1788. human being... | |
 | Johann Baptist von Weiss - World history - 1894 - 696 pages
...168. ^Gibbon — Lite and letters, p. 114, Schreiben Dom 4. October 1788, p. 102 — |d)HÍbt Don gor; „I admired the powers of a superior man, as they...from the taint of malevolence, vanity or falsehood." 3)33tougt)om, (Staatsmänner, I, S. 169—171. Derfengte ©ebiet jurücf . S)emoftb,ene§ werbe gefc^roä^tg... | |
 | William Roberts - Bibliomania - 1895 - 380 pages
...the value of the odd volume up to £3 3s. Gibbon, writing in his ' Autobiography ' of Fox, says, ' I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are...character with the softness and simplicity of a child,' an opinion which he might have modified if he had lived to read the foregoing note. When Canning's... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1896 - 540 pages
...1788), Mr. Fox gave me two days of free and private society. He seemed to feel and even to envy the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers...from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood. by an abstract of the controversies of the Incarnation,63 ,which the learned Dr. Prideaux* was apprehensive... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1896 - 466 pages
...1788), Mr. Fox gave me two days of freo and private society. He seemed to feel and even to envy the happiness of my situation ; while I admired the powers...from the taint of malevolence, vanity, or falsehood. by an abstract of the controversies of the Incarnation,61 which the learned Dr. Prideaux* was apprehensive... | |
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He seemed to feel, and even to envy, the happiness of my situation while I admired the powers of a superior man, as they are blended in his attractive character with the softness and simplicity of a child. 
