Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794)J. Murray, 1897 - 4 страница |
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Adieu affairs agreeable amusement annuity answer Archbishop of Arles arrived Assembly assured Bath Belvidere Bentinck Street bien Buriton correspondence DEAR MADAM December delay desire Deyverdun dine dinner dispatch Downing Street Duke Edward Gibbon England English enjoy Epistle Estate expect expence favour flatter France French Geneva give Goslings Gout happy hear Holroyd honour hope Hugonin impatient interest j'ai journey July King Lady Sheffield Lally Lausanne Lenborough letter London Lord Loughborough Lord North Lord Sheffield Louis XVI Madame de Staël Maria Minister months morning mortgage Necker never Newhaven Paris Parliament party passed perhaps Pitt pleasant pleasure poor present Prince probably Prussia purchase received Revolution Saturday September Severy Sheffield Place Sheffield to Edward silence society spirits Stepmother summer suppose Sussex Swiss town Vaud week winter wish write
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Страница 180 - Of years I have now half a century past, And none of the fifty so blest as the last. How it happens my troubles thus daily should cease. And my happiness thus with my years should increase, This defiance of Nature's more general laws, You alone can explain, who alone are the cause.
Страница 170 - Were I ambitious of any other Patron than the Public, I would inscribe this work to a Statesman, who, in a long, a stormy, and at length an unfortunate administration, had many political opponents, almost without a personal enemy ; who has retained, in his fall from power, many faithful and disinterested friends ; and who, under the pressure of severe infirmity, enjoys the lively vigor of his mind, and the felicity of his incomparable temper.
Страница 237 - I beg leave to subscribe my assent to Mr. Burke's creed on the revolution of France. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can almost excuse his reverence for church establishments.
Страница 236 - Necker, and could have wished to have shown him, as a warning, to any aspiring youth possessed with the demon of ambition. With all the means of private happiness in his power, he is the most miserable of human beings : the past, the present, and the future are equally odious to him. When I suggested some domestic amusements of books, building, &c., he answered, with a deep tone of despair, " Dans 1'etat ou je suis, je ne puis sentir que le coup de vent qui m'a abattu.
Страница 347 - Next winter may be the crisis of our fate, and if you begin to improve the constitution, you may be driven step by step from the disfranchisement of Old Sarum to the king in Newgate, the lords voted useless, the bishops abolished, and a house of commons without articles (sans culottes).
Страница 308 - You will allow me to be a tolerable historian, yet, on a fair review of ancient and modern times, I can find none that bear any affinity with the present.
Страница 180 - Our conversation never flagged a moment; and he seemed thoroughly pleased with the place and with his company. We had little politics; though he gave me, in a few words, such a character of Pitt, as one great man should give of another his rival...
Страница 291 - How happy could I be with either, Were t'other dear Charmer away!
Страница 48 - J'ai mille courtisans rangés autour de moi : Ma retraite est mon Louvre, et j'y commande en roi. Mais je n'use qu'ici de mon pouvoir suprême; Hors de mon cabinet je ne suis plus le même. Dans l'autre appartement , toujours contrarié : Ici, je suis garçon : là, je suis marié.
Страница 180 - I have eat and drank, and conversed and sat up all night, with Fox in England ; but it never has happened, perhaps it never can happen again, that I should enjoy him as I did that day, alone, from ten in the morning till ten at night.