 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 pages
...the past is no more; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may posslblii be my last: but the laws of probability, so true in general,...fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years.f I shall soon enter into that period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general,...selected by the judgment and experience of the sage Fonfancy with the hopes of charming ages yet to come. Foretcl me that some tender maid, whose grandmother... | |
 | 1814 - 774 pages
...true in general, so fallacious in particular, still allow me about fifteen yeart>. I shall soon enter the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was selected by the judgement and experience of the sage Fontenelle.'' But the sage Fontenelle said so upon the retrospect,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last ; but the laws of probability, so true in general,...eloquent historian of nature, who fixes our moral happmess to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 594 pages
...the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general,...fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years, t I shall soon enter into that period which, as the mo»t agreeable of his long life, was selected... | |
 | Daniel Wilson - 1827 - 440 pages
...that death was distant, are apparent from the following passage : — " This day may possibly be my last; but the laws of probability, so true in general,...fallacious in particular, still allow about fifteen years." He wrote this sentence some time in the year 1788 ; but instead of fifteen years of life, he expired... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...common jSuccesSi Perhaps the golden mediocrity of my fortune has contributed to fortify my application. The present is a fleeting moment, the past is no more...nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in wliich our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 882 pages
...the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general,...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,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...the past is no more ; and our prospect of futurity is dark and doubtful. This day may possibly be my last : but the laws of probability, so true in general,...nature, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season hi which our passions are supposed to be calmed, our duties fulfilled, our ambition satisfied,... | |
 | Juvenal - 1837 - 306 pages
...expressly advocated the autumn, though not the winter of life. " I am now entering," says Gibbon, " that period, which, as the most agreeable of his long life,...choice is approved by the eloquent historian of nature, Buffon, who fixes our moral happiness to the mature season in which our passions are supposed to be... | |
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I shall soon enter into the period which, as the most agreeable of his long life, was 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 to the mature... 
