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Side iv
... nature , that we can feel but little obliged to him for it ; for it is an impartiality which seems to check all the animation and all the eloquence which he well knew how to display on events , with whose truth and importance he himself ...
... nature , that we can feel but little obliged to him for it ; for it is an impartiality which seems to check all the animation and all the eloquence which he well knew how to display on events , with whose truth and importance he himself ...
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... nature its inherent disposition to prejudge , let it at least have a solid and reasonable groundwork . Nor can it be denied , that there are works of which our opinion ought to be influenced by that which we entertain of their author ...
... nature its inherent disposition to prejudge , let it at least have a solid and reasonable groundwork . Nor can it be denied , that there are works of which our opinion ought to be influenced by that which we entertain of their author ...
Side xxix
... nature , which cast my birth in a free and civilized country , in an age of science and philosophy , in a family of honourable rank , and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune . " The " golden mediocrity " of that fortune was hap ...
... nature , which cast my birth in a free and civilized country , in an age of science and philosophy , in a family of honourable rank , and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune . " The " golden mediocrity " of that fortune was hap ...
Side xxx
... nature , if it did not kindle in him much ardour , yet never darkened the shining light of his talents . “ The The tranquillity of Gibbon's mind was , however , interrupted during the closing years of his life by the proceedings of the ...
... nature , if it did not kindle in him much ardour , yet never darkened the shining light of his talents . “ The The tranquillity of Gibbon's mind was , however , interrupted during the closing years of his life by the proceedings of the ...
Side xxxii
... nature and limits of my general plan . The memorable series of revolutions , which , in the course of about thirteen centuries , gradually undermined , and at length destroyed , the solid fabric of human greatness , may , with some ...
... nature and limits of my general plan . The memorable series of revolutions , which , in the course of about thirteen centuries , gradually undermined , and at length destroyed , the solid fabric of human greatness , may , with some ...
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