 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...thirty feven ; the firft child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon efq. and of Judith Porten *. My lot might have been that of a flave, a favage, or a peafant ; nor can I refiect; without pleafure on the bounty of Nature , which caft my birth in a free and civilized country,... | |
 | 1798 - 432 pages
...Miranda, be has admirably deferibed my two aunts — the Heathen and the Chriftian fifters. MY lot might have been that of a flave, a favage, or a peafant,...nor can I reflect, without pleafure, on the bounty of-nature which caft my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of icience and philofophy,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1800 - 786 pages
...and thirtyfeven ; the firrl child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, efq. and of Judith Porten. My lot might have been that of a flave, a favage, or a peafant...birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of fcienceand philofophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.... | |
 | 1800 - 776 pages
...and thirtyfeven ; the lirll child of the marriage of Edward Gibbon, cfq. and of Judith Porten. My lot might have been that of a flave, a favage, or a peafant ; nor can I reflect without pleafnre on the bounty of nature, which call my birth in a free and civilized country, in art age of'... | |
 | 1806 - 688 pages
...slave, a savage or a peasant, nor can I reflect without pleasure, on the bounty of nature which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and ghilosophy, in a family of honorable rank and decently endowed with the gifts ojf fortune."... | |
 | Plutarch - 1811 - 356 pages
...Life, Vol. II. p. 217.)* 2 " I cannot reflect without pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy," &c. &c. (Gibbon's Mem. i. 17. 4to.) The present Emperor of Russia (Alex. I.)... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of for^... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...slave, a savage, or a peasant; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...slave, a savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...slave, a savage, or a peasant : nor can I reflect without pleasure on the hounty of nature which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune.... | |
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My lot might have been that of a slave, a savage, or a peasant; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently... 
