 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 544 pagine
...presumed to mark the moment of conception : I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 548 pagine
...presumed to mark the moment of conception : 1 shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...1787, between the hours of eleven and twelve, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After laying down my pen,... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pagine
...months were barely sufficient for the consumption of this precious fuel. *16. 1794. — GIBBON DIED. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
 | John Evans - 1817 - 610 pagine
...(says he) to mark the moment of conception ; I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of accacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the fake, and the mountain*.... | |
 | 1849 - 802 pagine
...my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th Jnne 1787, between the hoars of eleven and twelve, that I wrote the last lines...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bereean, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and mountains.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821 - 474 pagine
...the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787, hetween the hours of eleven and twelve, that 1 wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a bcrceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
 | Henry Matthews - 1822 - 334 pagine
...speaks in relating, with so much interesting detail, the conclusion of his historical labours : — " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains.... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1823 - 408 pagine
...of conception, (amid the ruins of Rome;) I shall now commemorate the hour of my final deliverance. It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, the lake, and the mountains. The... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1823 - 590 pagine
...shattered tool-house. " It was on the day, or rather night, of the 27th of June, 1787," says Gibbon, " between the hours of eleven and twelve, that I wrote...After laying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk of acacias, which commands a prospect of the country, VOL. V11I. NO. XXXII.... | |
 | 1823 - 592 pagine
...was on the day, or rather night, of the 2~th of June. 1787," :.ws Gibbon, "between the hours of devra and twelve, that I wrote the last lines of the last page, in a summer-house in my garden. After 'aying down my pen, I took several turns in a berceau, or covered walk *f acacias, which commands a... | |
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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... 
