 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 - 1891 - 474 pages
...(OS), in the year 1737; 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,...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... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1892 - 444 pages
...a desire to shine. Gibbon was born at Putney on the 27th of April (OS) 1737. As he justly observes, 'My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant ' ; but, in fact, his father was a man of old family and some property. His grandfather, Edward Gibbon,... | |
 | William Outram Tristram - 1893 - 402 pages
...about his father's house, and which he has thus in his autobiography so whimsically described — " 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... | |
 | Agnes Repplier - 1894 - 258 pages
...disposition." Gibbon, indeed, awakens our expectations with this solemn and stately sentence : — " 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 honorable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune." After which... | |
 | John Ulrich Ransom - 1894 - 174 pages
...thirty-seven [;] the1 first child of the marriage of Edward2 Gibbon, [Esq.,] and of2 Judith Porten. My lot might have been that of a slave, | [a] savage, or [a] peasant ;| nor3 can I reflect •without pleasure on the bounty of Nature,*] which4 cast my birth in a free... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1895 - 246 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 honorable rank and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune. From my birth... | |
 | Charles George Harper - 1895 - 400 pages
...hundred and twenty- 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,...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 niy... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 466 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,...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. [Of this... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - 540 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,...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. [Of this... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - 364 pages
...1688. 20 5. From my birth. In Memoir B Gibbon adds a sentence which has usually been printed here : " 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." 21 12.... | |
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