Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794)J. Murray, 1897 |
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acquaintance Adieu affairs agreable Almack's answer April arrived assure Bath believe Bentinck Street Beriton Boodle's Buckinghamshire Clarke Colonel compliments DEAR H Dear Sir December delay desire Deyverdun dined Duke E. G. DEAR MADAM Earl Edward Gibbon elected Eliot embrace My Lady England Estate excuse expect expence father fear February French give gout happy hear honour hope Hugonin impatient Isle of Wight J. B. Holroyd January journey June Lausanne Lenborough letter London Lord North Lord Sheffield Lovegrove Madame du Deffand March married Miss Monday month morning night November obliged occasion October Pall Mall Paris Parliament passed Petersfield pleasure Port Eliot Porten present propose received Saturday Sheffield Place sincerely soon spirits Stepmother suppose surprized Sussex talk thing Thursday to-morrow town truly Tuesday Turin Walpole week wish write wrote yesterday
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Seite 329 - An Act for • removing all Doubts and Apprehensions concerning Taxation by the Parliament of Great Britain, in any of the Colonies, Provinces, and Plantations in North America, and the West Indies...
Seite 81 - The Curchod (Madame Necker) I saw at Paris. She was very fond of me, and the husband particularly civil. Could they insult me more cruelly ? Ask me every evening to supper ; go to bed, and leave me alone with his wife — what an impertinent security ! it is making an old lover of mighty little consequence.
Seite 213 - Each had his measured phraseology ; and Johnson's famous parallel between Dryden and Pope might be loosely parodied, in reference to himself and Gibbon. Johnson's style was grand, and Gibbon's elegant ; the stateliness of the former was sometimes pedantic, and the polish of the latter was occasionally finical. Johnson marched to kettle-drums and trumpets ; Gibbon moved to flutes and haut-boys : Johnson hewed passages through the Alps, while Gibbon levelled walks through parks and gardens.
Seite 21 - But, grievous as it was, I should be the most ungrateful of men, if I did not ever bless God, publicly as well as in private, for the grace that delivered me, and if in doing so, I did not also give my humble thanks to Him through Jesus Christ our Lord, that the grounds on which I...
Seite 251 - I am still a mute ; it is more tremendous than I imagined ; the great speakers fill me with despair, the bad ones with terror.
Seite 248 - Hutcheson very dry; and if my confidence was equal to my eloquence, and my eloquence to my knowledge, perhaps I might make no very intolerable speaker.
Seite 382 - Our danger is at an end, but our disgrace will be lasting, and the month of June 1780 will ever be marked by a dark and diabolical fanaticism which I had supposed to be extinct, but which actually subsists in Great Britain perhaps beyond any other country in Europe.
Seite 59 - The most sociable women I have met with are the king's daughters. I chatted for about a quarter of an hour with them, talked about Lausanne, and grew so very free and easy that I drew my snuff-box...
Seite 381 - Forty thousand Puritans, such as they might be in the time of Cromwell, have started out of their graves ; the tumult has been dreadful, and even the remedy of military force and martial law is unpleasant. But Government, with fifteen thousand regulars in town and every gentleman but one on their side, must extinguish the flame.
Seite 270 - George, with his own hand, wrote a very polite epistle to sister Kitty, requesting her friendly assistance. Full powers and instructions were sent at the same time to Gunning to agree for any force between five and twenty thousand men, carte blanche for the terms...