 It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered...  A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical: Of the Various ... - Page 140by John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 408 pages
...conception, (amid the ruins of Rome;) I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pages
...the garden to behold what the maiden called " La Gibbon" — an old shattered tool-house. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787," says Gibbon, " between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...mark the moment of concepception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...find he wrote the last words of his history between the hours of eleven and twelve at night. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer house in my garden. After... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1827 - 440 pages
...and extreme selraised in the Christian's mind could be separated from the recollection of it. "It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last line of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After... | |
 | Richard Duppa - Architecture - 1829 - 560 pages
...rubbish. Here he finished his history, and in his Memoirs has thus commemorated the event. " It was on the day or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787 between the hours of eleven and twelve that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...to mark the moment of conception ; I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the lost lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...had gathered in that city and ;hbourhood. The completion of the history he thus describes: 'It was he sky, In adoration join ; and ardent raise One general song ! To Him, ye v eleven and twelve that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-house in ray garden. After... | |
 | Europe - 1830 - 400 pages
...day," says he, " or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1 787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer-honse in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bergeau, or covered... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...concludes his great work at Lausanne ; the sixth volume, which he began the 18th of May, 1786. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After... | |
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