 | Edward Gibbon - 1820 - 510 sider
...adopted by many of the Greek and Latin fathers. See Berasobre, Hist. du Manicheuine, 1. 1\, e. 4. CHAP, ray of comfort to desponding virtue; but the „ ',,.. faint impression which had been received in the school, was soon obliterated by the commerce and business of active life. We are sufficiently acquainted... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 468 sider
...mankind, might serve to amuse the leisure of a philosophic mind : or. ii; the silence of solitude, it might sometimes impart a ray of comfort to desponding...commerce and business of active life. We are sufficiently acquaint41 la particular, the first book of the Tusculnn Questions, and the treatise !>t Senectute,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 sider
...u ray of comfort to ipondiue virtue; batthefaiut impression which had been received in tho school s and steel, tho soldier and his sword ; No vernal blooms their torpid Bufficily acquainted with the eminent persons who flourí&hcd in the age, of Cicero, and fhe first... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1304 sider
...mankind, might serve to amuse the leisure of a philosophic mind ; or, in the silence of solitude, it might sometimes impart a ray of comfort to desponding...are sufficiently acquainted with the eminent persons »ho flourished in the age of Cicero, and of the first CsEsars, with their actions, their characters,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 564 sider
...mankind, might serve to amuse the leisure of a philosophic mind : or, in the silence of solitude, it might sometimes impart a ray of comfort to desponding...flourished in the age of Cicero, and of the first Csesars, with their actions, their characters, and their motives, to be aseured that their conduct... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 sider
...mankind might serve to amuse the leisure of a philosophic mind ; or, in the silence of solitude, it K i ? 9 ґ ^ | Mz 9 :d| 6 k) ~ CH ּ a W,1 } ؇ R kc hh 5F^ ۥ \ Z % w\ b G " 2 school was soon obliterated by the commerce and business of active life. We are sufficiently acquainted... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 sider
...mankind might serve to amuse the leisure of a philosophic mind ; or, in the silence of solitude, it gea liad been received in the school was soon obliterated by the commerce and business of active life.... | |
 | Frank Fairplay - 1846 - 96 sider
...sufficiently acquainted," says the infidel historian of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, " with the eminent persons, who flourished in the age of Cicero, and the first Cesars, with their actions, their characters, and their motives, to be assured that their... | |
 | 1851 - 372 sider
...mankind, might serve to amuse the leisure of a philosophic mind ; or, in the silence of solitude, it might sometimes impart a ray of comfort to desponding...by the commerce and business of active life. We are sufficientlyacquainted with the eminent persons who flourished in the age of Cicero, and of the first... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 sider
...mankind, might serve to amuse the leisure of a philosophic mind; or, in the silence of solitnde, it might sometimes impart a ray of comfort to desponding...the faint impression which had been received in the school was soon obliterated by the commerce and business of active life. We are sufficiently acquainted... | |
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A doctrine thus removed beyond the senses and the experience of mankind might serve to amuse the leisure of a philosophic mind, or in the silence of solitude it might sometimes impart a ray of comfort to desponding virtue, but the faint impression which... 
