 My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of 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...  The Emerald - Page 2351806Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...OS in the year 1737; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, esq. and of Judith Porten.« My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...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. From my... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...OS in the year 1737; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, esq. and of Judith 1'orten.* My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...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. From my... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...hundred and thirty-seven ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, Esq. and of Judith Porten. * My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, whicl cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of .science and philosophy ; in i family... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...27. Charles Blount, 1654, Upper Holloway, Edward Gibbon, 1737, OS Putney. Nicholas Sells, 1737, Pora. My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...peasant : nor can I reflect without pleasure on the hounty of nature which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy,... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...are Mrs. Hutchinson's effusions of gratitude. The same sentiment is expressed by Gibbon, who says, " My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor cm I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...hundred and thirty-seven ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, Esq. and of Judith Porten.* .My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...hundred and thirty-seven ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, Esq. and of Judith Porten.* My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1838 - 594 pages
...passage in that most beautiful example of autobiography — Gibbon's Memoirs (published in 1795): — ' My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and abundantly endowed with the gifts of * Extremely small... | |
 | Thomas Browne Browne - 1838 - 274 pages
...that different ages are unequal in mental powers, because individuals are. " I cannot," says Gibbon, " reflect without pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science p 3 and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...hundred and thirty-seven ; the first child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, Esq. and of Judith Porten.1 My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage,...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. From my... | |
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