 | Edward Gibbon - 1814 - 726 pages
...this inestimable treasure; and in tho capital of taste and luxury she resisted the tempta-. tions of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships, of indigence....has exalted him to the most conspicuous station in Eu-. rope. In every change of prosperity and disgrace • See Oeuvres de Rousseau, torn, xxxiii. p.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 pages
...this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted the temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence....conspicuous station in Europe. In every change of * See (Euvres de Rousseau, tom- xxxiii. pp. 88, 89, octavo edition. Aa an author, I shall not appeal... | |
 | 1830 - 336 pages
...this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted the temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence....has exalted him to the most conspicuous station in Eur9pe. In every change of * See CEuvres de Houssuau, torn, xxxiii. pp. 88, 89, octavo edition. As... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...this inestimable treasure; and, in the capital of taste and luxury, she resisted the temptation of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence....exalted him to the most conspicuous station in Europe ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker." In 1758 he received permission to return... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted the temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence....friend ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy. Whatsoever have been the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted the temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence....friend ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy. Whatsoever have been the... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 530 pages
...this inestimable treasure; and, in the capital of taste and luxury, she resisted the temptation of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence....exalted him to the most conspicuous station in Europe ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker." ID 1758 he received permission to return... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted the temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence....friend ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy. (10) Whatsoever have been... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...possess this inestimable treasure; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence....friend ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy (10). Whatsoever have been... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman (historien).) - 1840 - 386 pages
...possess this inestimable treasure; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence....friend ; and Mademoiselle Curchod is now the wife of M. Necker, the minister, and perhaps the legislator, of the French monarchy (10). Whatsoever have been... | |
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A rich banker of Paris, a citizen of Geneva, had the good fortune and good sense to discover and possess this inestimable treasure ; and in the capital of taste and luxury she resisted the temptations of wealth, as she had sustained the hardships of indigence.... 
