 ... 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
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pagine
...has contributed to fortify my application. 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... | |
 | George Saintsbury - 1912 - 516 pagine
...nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to have calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied,...; 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... | |
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...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 have calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 372 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 in which our passions are supposed to have calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and 15 fortune established on a... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1916 - 1006 pagine
..." the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent his" torian of nature, [Huffon,]w ho fixes our moral happiness to the " mature season in...and " this autumnal felicity might be exemplified in the lives ofVoltaire, " Hume, and many other men of letters. I am far more inclined " to embrace... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1917 - 244 pagine
...and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of Nature,4 who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season,...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.6 I am far more Button, Hist. Nat., vii. 158-64. This was written at Lausanne in March, 1791,... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1920 - 272 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...calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, and our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. In private conversation, that great and amiable... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1924 - 222 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...; 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... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 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,...our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fullfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis. ... I am far... | |
 | Benjamin Ifor Evans - 2006 - 520 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...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... | |
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