 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify my application. The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may posslblii be my last: but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify my application. .The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...those who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor see." Hook xiii. chap 1. The present is a fleeting moment ; the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last ; but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...who never knew nor saw me, and whom I shall neither know nor ace." Book xiii. cha|> 1. The present is a fleeting moment ; the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be ray last ; -but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious... | |
 | 1836 - 436 pages
...reluctantly confesses in another place, that " the abbreviation of time and the failure of hope, tmged with a browner shade the evening of life." " The present,"...my last ; but the laws of probability, so true in generai, so fallacious in particular, st'ill allow about fifteen years." He wrote this sentence some... | |
 | 1836 - 444 pages
...reluctantly confesses in another place, that " the abbreviation of time and the failure of hope, tmged with a browner shade the evening of life." " The present,"...possibly be my last ; but the laws of probability, so i r-- in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years." He wrote this sentence... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify my application. The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 pages
...Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify iny application. The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in... | |
 | James Smith - 1840 - 758 pages
...I ramble!) does not go the length of my Wormwood. He expresses himself as follows :—" The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more, and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - 1840 - 386 pages
...Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify my application. The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibIy be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in... | |
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The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years. 
