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... conversation stagnated in a round of college business , Tory politics , personal anecdotes , and private scandal . Their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intem- perance of youth , and their constitutional toasts were not ...
... conversation stagnated in a round of college business , Tory politics , personal anecdotes , and private scandal . Their dull and deep potations excused the brisk intem- perance of youth , and their constitutional toasts were not ...
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... conversation of Virgil and Tacitus . ” This statement of the Memoirs is more than confirmed by the journal of his studies , where we find him , as late as the year 1762 , when he was twenty - five years 24 [ CHAP . GIBBON .
... conversation of Virgil and Tacitus . ” This statement of the Memoirs is more than confirmed by the journal of his studies , where we find him , as late as the year 1762 , when he was twenty - five years 24 [ CHAP . GIBBON .
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... conversation , pure in sentiment , and elegant in manners . " He was twenty and she seventeen years of age ; no impediment was placed in the way of their meeting ; and he was a frequent guest in her father's house . In fact Gibbon paid ...
... conversation , pure in sentiment , and elegant in manners . " He was twenty and she seventeen years of age ; no impediment was placed in the way of their meeting ; and he was a frequent guest in her father's house . In fact Gibbon paid ...
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... conversation , her polite welcome , and her assiduous care to study and gratify my wishes announced at least that the surface would be smooth ; and my suspicions of art and false- hood were gradually dispelled by the full discovery of ...
... conversation , her polite welcome , and her assiduous care to study and gratify my wishes announced at least that the surface would be smooth ; and my suspicions of art and false- hood were gradually dispelled by the full discovery of ...
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... conversation , was the most serious as well as the most delightful business of life . Talk and discussion in the senate , the market - place , and the schools are cheap ; even barbarians are not wholly without them . But their ...
... conversation , was the most serious as well as the most delightful business of life . Talk and discussion in the senate , the market - place , and the schools are cheap ; even barbarians are not wholly without them . But their ...
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Side 12 - The Desert of the Exodus. Journeys on Foot in the Wilderness of the Forty Years' Wanderings, undertaken in connection with the Ordnance Survey of Sinai and the Palestine Exploration Fund. By EH PALMER, MA, Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic and Fellow of St.
Side 139 - I beg leave to subscribe my assent to Mr. Burke's creed on the revolution of France. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments.
Side 4 - MOHAMMED AND MOHAMMEDANISM: Lectures Delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in February and March, 1874. By R.
Side 10 - HOMES WITHOUT HANDS; a Description of the Habitations of Animals, classed according to their Principle of Construction.
Side 12 - Without a single lecture, either public or private, either Christian or protestant, without any academical subscription, without any episcopal confirmation, I was left by the dim light of my catechism to grope my way to the chapel and communiontable, where I was admitted, without a question, how far, or by what means, I might be qualified to receive the sacrament.
Side 136 - 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 walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.
Side 1 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of "The Thirty Years
Side 27 - The habits of pleasure fortified my taste for the French theatre, and that taste has perhaps abated my idolatry for the gigantic genius of Shakespeare, which is inculcated from our infancy as the first duty of an Englishman.
Side 21 - The various articles of the Romish creed disappeared like a dream; and after a full conviction, on Christmas Day 1754, I received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne. It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries, acquiescing with implicit belief in the tenets and mysteries which are adopted by the general consent of Catholics and Protestants.
Side 104 - He remains the one historian of the eighteenth century whom modern research has neither set aside nor threatened to set aside.