 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 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 - 1895 - 246 pages
...inscribed on one of the ten thousand tickets, should we be perfectly easy ? t See Buffon. own expeiience ; and this autumnal felicity might be exemplified in...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 - 1896 - 540 pages
...ten thousand tickets, should we be perfectly easy? 73 See Buffon, p. 413. In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his...of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. and after the middle season the crowd must be content to remain at the foot of the mountain, while... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - History - 1896 - 466 pages
...ten thousand tickets, should we be perfectly easy ? 73 See Buffon, p. 413. In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience; and this autnmnal felicity might be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, find many other men of letters.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...Introduction. 190 3. solid basis. Gibbon refers to Buffon (p. 413), and adds : " In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his...of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters." 190 27. above the clouds. Gibbon's last note to the Memoirs is on this passage, as follows : " This... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1898 - 228 pages
...fortune established on a solid basis. In private conversation that great and amiable man added the N 2 weight of his own experience ; and this autumnal felicity...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... | |
 | Annie Barnett - English prose literature - 1900 - 1060 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 - Historians - 1900 - 398 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...the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters.'2 I am far more inclined to embrace than to dispute this comfortable doctrine. I will not... | |
 | Estelle Davenport Adams - Death - 1902 - 316 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... | |
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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. 
