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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 civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and... "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 14
by Edward Gibbon - 1816
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Miscellaneous Works of Edw. Gibbon: With Memoirs of His Life and ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of fcience and philofophy, in a family of honorable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune....have enjoyed the right of primogeniture; but I was fucceeded by five brothers and one fifter, all of whom •were fnatched away in their infancy. My five...
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The New annual register, or General repository of history, politics, and ...

1797 - 856 pages
...of nature, which caft my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of fcience and philofophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed...gifts of fortune. From my birth I have enjoyed the C 4 right right of primogeniture; but I was fuccceded by five brothers and one filter, all of whom...
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The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year, Volume 38

Edmund Burke - 1800 - 788 pages
...nature, which raft my birth in a free and civtli'zcd country, rn an ape of ivience and philofopiiy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune. From my birth 1 have enjoyed the right of primogeniture; but I was Succeeded by rive brothers and one filter, all...
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Annual Register, Volume 38

Edmund Burke - 1800 - 786 pages
...of nature, which caft my 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. Vrom nay birth I have enjoyed the right of primogeniture ; but 1 was fucceeded by five brothers and...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 38

1800 - 776 pages
...nature, which call my birth in a free and civilized country, in art age of' fcienceanci philofophy, in a. family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of tortone. From my birth 1 have enjoyed the right of primogeniture; but 1 was iticceeded by rive brothers...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 38

1807 - 772 pages
...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...My five brothers, whose names may be found in the pariah register of Putney, I shall not pretend to lament ;. but from my childhood <o-the present hour...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esq: With Memoirs of His ..., Volume 1

Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...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^ tune. From my birth I have enjoyed the right of primogeniture ; but I was succeeded by five brothers...
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Autobiographies: A Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing ..., Volume 14

1830 - 336 pages
...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...brothers and one sister, all of whom were snatched away m their infancy. My five brothers, whose names may be found in the parish register of Putney, I shall...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 1

Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 pages
...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. — Gibbon. "/' the Latin Church. St. Anthimus, Kiihop, and many others, Martyn at Nicomedia, 303....
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Selections from the works of Taylor, Hooker, Barrow [and others] by B. Montagu

Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...on the bounty of nature, which cast my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of M?ience and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts of fortune." Gibbon's Memoirs. Coleridge in the introduction to his Lay Sermons, page x. says, " Few are sufficiently...
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