 | Edward Gibbon - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 502 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives ireah vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English literature - 1814 - 726 pages
...and reason — A melancholy calculation ! passion passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 336 pages
...extinguished before the age of puberty and reason. A melancholy calculation ! fresh vigour from enjoyment, -supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Autobiographies - 1830 - 336 pages
...extinguished before the age of puberty and reason. A melancholy calculation ! fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | 1831 - 596 pages
...India. It became," continued he, " a passion which derived fresh vigor from enjoyment, and supplied each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational enjoyment." In fact, of all the inventions of man, I know of none that so completely satisfies that... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has • SeeBuffon,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Historians - 1839 - 496 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The 1» See Buffbn, Supplément a l'Histoire... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Literature - 1840 - 382 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Literature - 1840 - 390 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...corrected by philosophy or time. The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure ; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. The original soil has been highly improved... | |
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The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigour from enjoyment, supplies each day, each hour, with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure; and I am not sensible of any decay of the mental faculties. 
