| Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 sivua
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives ireah vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 sivua
...and reason — A melancholy calculation ! passion passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 sivua
...extinguished before the age of puberty and reason. A melancholy calculation ! fresh vigour from enjoyment, -supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
| 1830 - 336 sivua
...extinguished before the age of puberty and reason. A melancholy calculation ! fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
| 1831 - 596 sivua
...India. It became," continued he, " a passion which derived fresh vigor from enjoyment, and supplied each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational enjoyment." In fact, of all the inventions of man, I know of none that so completely satisfies that... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 sivua
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has • SeeBuffon,... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 496 sivua
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The 1» See Buffbn, Supplément a l'Histoire... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1840 - 382 sivua
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
| Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 sivua
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 sivua
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
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