 | 1857 - 600 pages
...experience of the sageFontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature [Buffon], 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1869 - 462 pages
...selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness...our fame and fortune established on a solid basis (see Buffon). In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
 | 1876 - 814 pages
...over, in a country where the renegades are protected by the women.' Buffon, as interpreted by Gibbon, ' fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in...our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.'* Sainte-Beuve fixes our moral unhappiness to this same season — 'There comes a sad moment in life;... | |
 | 1876 - 576 pages
...over, in a country where the renegades are protected by the women.' Buffon, as interpreted by Gibbon, ' fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in...our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.' * Sainte-Beuve fixes our moral unhappiness to this same season — ' There comes a sad moment in life... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1877 - 238 pages
...selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness...our fame and fortune established on a solid basis, f In private conversation that great and amiable man added the weight of his of charming ages yet to... | |
 | 1878 - 312 pages
...the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our XLI. moral happiness to the mature season in which our...autumnal felicity might be exemplified in the lives of many other men of letters. I am far more inclined to embrace than to dispute this comfortable doctrine.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 448 pages
...selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.3 In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 456 pages
...selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fontenelle. His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happiness...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.3 In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 474 pages
...experience of the sage Fontenelle. (His choice is approved by the eloquent historian of natureTwho fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in...satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.5] In private conversation, that great and amiable man added the weight of his own experience... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - 454 pages
...calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied, our fame and fortune established on a solid basis.3 In private conversation, that great and amiable man...exemplified in the lives of Voltaire, Hume, and many 1 In the first of ancient or modern romances (Tom Jones), this proud sentiment, this feast of fancy,... | |
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His choice is approved by the elegant 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 fame and fortune established on a solid basis. 
