 After a fleeting illusive hope, prudence condemned me to acquiesce in the humble station of a mute. I was not armed by Nature and education with the intrepid energy of mind and voice, Vincentem strepitus, et natum rebus agendis. Timidity was fortified...  New Biographies of Illustrious Men - Page 2431857 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pages
...energy of mind and voice — " Vincentem strepitus, et natum rebus agendis." Timidity was fortified by pride, and even the success of my pen discouraged the trial of my voice.1 But I assisted at the debates of a free assembly ; I listened to the attack and defence of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 pages
...energy of mind and voice— " Vincentem strepitus, et natum rebus agendis." Timidity was fortified by pride, and even the success of my pen discouraged the trial of my voice.1 But I assisted at the debates of a free assembly ; I listened to the attack and defence of... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pages
...energy of mind and voice — "Vincentem strepitus, et natum rebus agendis." Timidity was fortified by pride, and even the success of my pen discouraged the trial of my voice.1 But I assisted at the debates of a free assembly ; I listened to the attack and defence of... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - Literature - 1892 - 444 pages
...besides afraid of his own reputation, or, to use his own singular dialect, 'Timidity was fortified by pride, and even the success of my pen discouraged the trial of my voice.' The publication of the first instalment of the History was followed by a hot controversy, in which... | |
 | John Meredith Read - Bern (Switzerland) - 1897 - 640 pages
...House by speech ; he contented himself with silently supporting the Ministry. ' Timidity was fortified by pride, and even the success of my pen discouraged the trial of my voice.' • He writes to Mrs. Gibbon, March 30, 1 775 : 'As yet I have been mute. In the course of our American... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 558 pages
...intrepid energy of mind and voice, Vincentum strepitus, et natum rebus agendis. Timidity was fortified by pride, and even the success of my pen discouraged the trial of my voice. But I assisted at the debates of a free assembly; I listened to the attack and defense of eloquence... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 430 pages
...intrepid energy of mind and voice, Vincentum strepitus, et natum rebus agendis. Timidity was fortified by pride, and even the success of my pen discouraged the trial of my voice. But I assisted at the debates of a free assembly ; I listened to the attack and defense of eloquence... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - Authorship - 1911 - 444 pages
...intrepid energy of mind and voice, Vincentum strepitus, et natum rebus agendis. Timidity was fortified by pride, and even the success of my pen discouraged the trial of my voice. But I assisted at the debates of a free assembly; I listened to the attack and defence of eloquence... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - Books - 1912 - 380 pages
...recording none but silent votes. Pride hastened to excuse a natural timidity, and he confessed that even " the success of my pen discouraged the trial of my voice." Yet, as his training in the Southampton militia enabled him to examine the battles of antiquity with... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - Anthologies - 1913 - 494 pages
...energy of mind and voice, Vincentum strepitus, et natum rebus agendis. Timidity was fortified with pride, and even the success of my pen discouraged the trial of my voice. But I assisted at the debates of a free assembly; I listened to the attack and defense of eloquence... | |
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