 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 civilized country, in an age of science and philosophy, in a family of honourable rank, and...  Plutarch's Lives - Page 236by Plutarch - 1811Full view - About this book
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...flave, a favage, or a peafant ; nor can I refiect; without pleafure on the bounty of Nature , which caft my 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.... | |
 | 1797 - 856 pages
...flave, a favage, era peafant ; nor can I refleft without pleafure on the bounty 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 with the gifts of fortune.... | |
 | 1798 - 432 pages
...flave, a favage, or a peafant, nor can I reflect, without pleafure, on the bounty of-nature which caft my birth in a free and civilized country, in an age of icience and philofophy, in a family of honourable rank, and decently endowed with the gifts,of fortune.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 786 pages
...flave, a favage, or a peafant ; nor can I reflect without pleafure on the bounty 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.... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...savage, or a peasant ; nor can I reflect without pleasure on the bounty of Nature, which cast my t>irth 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. From my birth I have... | |
 | 1806 - 688 pages
...the following passage. « 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...free and civilized country, in an age of science and ghilosophy, in a family of honorable rank and decently endowed with the gifts ojf fortune." " • Gibbon,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1813 - 532 pages
...flave, a favage, or a peafant : nor can I reflect without pleafure on the bounty 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 with the gifts of fortune."... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...Esq. and of Judith Porten,* 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,...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1816 - 498 pages
...esq. and of Judith Porten*. 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 nt' science and philosophy; in a family of honourable rank, and decently... | |
 | Plutarchus - 1819 - 524 pages
...cannot reflect without pleasure on the bounty of natofe, which cast my birth in a free and civilised country, in an age of science and philosophy,' &c. &c. (Gibbon's Mem. i. 17. *to.) The present Emperor of Russia (Alex. I.) is said to have observed, that the man possessing the... | |
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