 ... and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season, in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our...  Juvenal - Pagina 149di Juvenal - 1837 - 58 pagineVisualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | 1796 - 622 pagine
...our duties * fulfilled, our fame and fortune eftablifhed on a folid bafis. In * private converfation, that great and amiable man added the ' weight of his...and this autumnal felicity * might be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and c many other men of letters. I am far more Jnclined to em* brace:... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pagine
...our ambition fatisfied, our fame and fortune eftablifhed on a folid bafis ". In private conyerfation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his...experience; and this autumnal felicity might be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than... | |
 | 1797 - 610 pagine
...our ambition l'atisfied, our fame and fortune eftabliflied on a lolid balls. In private converfation, that great and amiable man, added the weight of his...; and this autumnal felicity might be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. I am far morc inclined to embrace than... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pagine
...and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season...duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and foftune established on a solid basis. J In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pagine
...we be perfectly easy I tencllc. tcnelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season...; and this autumnal felicity might be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1816 - 498 pagine
...and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid liasisf . In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pagine
...Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happmess to the mature season in which our passions are supposed...our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. f In private conversation that great and amiable " man added the weight of his own experience ; and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pagine
...experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who axes our moral happiness to the mature season in which...; and this autumnal felicity might be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pagine
...is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature aeason in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our...; and this autumnal felicity might be exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many other men of letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than... | |
 | 1834 - 602 pagine
...of others would fail to do so hereafter. After quoting the opinion of Fontenelle, who, he observes, fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our dutiea fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fume and fortune established on a solid basis, he says,... | |
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