 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...  The Living Age - Page 4661873Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...event he himself has left us the following account: ' It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve,...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...in the circumstances which he has thus stated: — ' It was on the day or rather night of the 27th rotect, Some frail memorial still erected nigh, With uncouth rhymes and shapeless sculpture decked, I Bummer-house in my garden. After laying do1 my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covei Residence... | |
 | 1910 - 1176 pages
...now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather the night of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve,...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... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 pages
...moon.28 The mood combines relief and a sense of loss: It was on the day or rather the night of the 2jth of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1998 - 1094 pages
...shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve,...the last page, in a summerhouse in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 2000 - 470 pages
...shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day or rather the night of 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve...lines of the last page in a summer-house in my garden. ... I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom and perhaps the establishment... | |
 | Eugene L. Stelzig - 2000 - 302 pages
...the same admixture in a yet more affecting manner: It was on the day or rather the night of the 27th of June 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve that I wrote the last page in a summer house in my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau or... | |
 | David Womersley - 2002 - 472 pages
...passage of draft 8E' of the 'Memoirs': It was on the day, or rather the night, of the ayth ofJune, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that...the last page in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen I took several turns in a batrau, or covered walk of Acacias, which commands a prospect... | |
 | H.v. Morton - 2009 - 256 pages
...Lausanne, and he described 'the final hour of my deliverance'. It was the day, or rather night, of June 27, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that 'I wrote the last lines of the last page in a summer house of my garden. After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered... | |
 | Albert Barnes - 1879 - 451 pages
...and though the same facts might have been recorded * "It was on the day, or rather night of the 27th of June, 1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve,...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... | |
| |
