 | Edward Gibbon - Historians - 1869 - 462 pages
...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis (see Buffon). In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his...Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to dispute this comfortable doctrine. I will not suppose any premature... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Authors, English - 1877 - 238 pages
...tickets, should we be perfectly easy ? + See Buffon. own experience : and this autumnal felicity might he exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. I am far more inclined to emhrace than to dispute this comfortable doctrine. I will not suppose any premature... | |
 | Greek language - 1878 - 312 pages
...our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his...autumnal felicity might be exemplified in the lives of many other men of letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to dispute this comfortable doctrine.... | |
 | Scotland - 1881 - 842 pages
...our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. In private conversation that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience — and this autumnal felicity may be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. I am far more inclined... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1887 - 1040 pages
...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.3 In private conversation, that i.Teat and amiable man added the weight of his own experience...Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to dispute this comfortable doctrine. I will not suppose any premature... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Fiction - 1887 - 216 pages
...our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. In private conversation that great and amiable man added the weight of his...of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters.' — Gibbon, Misc. Writ., i. 271-5. Dr. Franklin, who was Johnson's contemporary, says in his Autobiography... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophers - 1888 - 486 pages
...our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. In private conversation that great and amiable man added the weight of his...Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to dispute this comfortable doctrine. I will not suppose any premature... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 pages
...our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.5] In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his...exemplified' in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many 1 In the first of ancient or modern romances (Tom Jones), this proud sentiment, this feast of fancy,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pages
...our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.3 In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his...exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many 1 In the first of ancient or modern romances (Tom Jones), this proud sentiment, this feast of fancy,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pages
...our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.3 In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his...exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many 1 In the first of ancient or modern romances (Tom Jones), this proud sentiment, this feast of fancy,... | |
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In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience ; and this autumnal felicity might be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. 
