 | Edward Gibbon - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...ascribed to an accident. In the summer of 1751, I accompanied my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's, in Wiltshire ; but I was less delighted with the beauties...previous work. To me the reigns of the successors of Constantine were absolutely new ; and I was immersed in the passage of the Goths over the Danube, when... | |
 | 1893 - عدد الصفحات: 882
...which threw the continuation of Echará' s Roman History in the way of Gibbon. " To me," he says, " the reigns of the successors of Constantino were absolutely...the Goths over the Danube, when the summons of the dinner-bell reluctantly dragged me from my intellectual feast. ... I procured the second and third... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...be ascribed to an accident. In the summer of 1751 I accompanied my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's, in Wiltshire ; but I was less delighted with the beauties...indeed executed with more skill and taste than the prrevious work : to me the reigns of the successors of Constantino were absolutely new, and I was immersed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...be ascribed to an accident. In the summer of 1751 I accompanied my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's, in Wiltshire ; but I was less delighted with the beauties...indeed executed with more skill and taste than the praevious work : to me the reigns of the successors of Constantine were absolutely new, and I was immersed... | |
 | 1897 - عدد الصفحات: 916
...of Speed, Rapiu, and many standard works on history and travel. He tells us how, at that period, he was "immersed in the passage of the Goths over the Danube" when the dinner-bell dragged him from his intellectual feast. By the age of sixteen he had "exhausted all that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 720
...ascribed to an accident. In the summer of 1751 I accompanied iny father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's, in Wiltshire ; but I was less delighted with the beauties...the Goths over the Danube, when the summons of the dinuer-bell reluctantly dragged me from my intellectual feast. This transient glance served rather... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...ascribed to an accident. In the summer of 1751, I accompanied 15 my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's in Wiltshire. But I was less delighted with the beauties...executed with more skill and taste than the previous 20 work. To me the reigns of the successors of Constantine were absolutely new, and I was immersed... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...with more skill and taste than the previous 20 work. To me the reigns of the successors of Constantine were absolutely new, and I was immersed in the passage...the Goths over the Danube, when the summons of the dinner-bell reluctantly dragged me from my intellectual feast. This transient glance served rather... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...of Speed, Rapin, and many standard works on history and travel. He tells us how, at that period, he was ' immersed in the passage of the Goths over the Danube ' when the dinnerbell dragged him from his intellectual feast. By the age of sixteen he had 'exhausted all that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...— the ancient part of it — and here was the Court of Persia " (Essays of Elia, ed. 1889, p. in).] delighted with the beauties of Stourhead, than with...in the library a common book, the Continuation of Eac hard's Roman History, which is indeed executed with more skill and taste than the previous work.... | |
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My first introduction to the historic scenes which have since engaged so many years of my life must be ascribed to an accident. In the summer of 1751 I accompanied my father on a visit to Mr. Hoare's, in Wiltshire ; but I was less delighted with the beauties... 
